I Called Peter Fairlie With Satellites (And Bounced A Call Through Starlink)

This is a follow-up to my first Inmarsat terminal video (   • Making Satellite Calls With A 1973 Telepho...  ) where I got an outdated satellite phone system working with even older landline phone equipment. In this one I'm making some more random calls and seeing what the platform can do.

People keep confusing ‪@peterfairlie2296‬ and I with each other, as we both have satellite-related content. I've been watching his videos on satellite telephone calls, so now that I have my own I just had to call him with it! I even tried to use a Flipper Zero, which Peter has showcased on his channel. Sadly the Flipper didn't work very well.

I also called someone who uses a Starlink phone connection, just to see what a ground to geostationary to ground to low-earth-orbit to ground connection sounds like. It was even more laggy, but the audio quality was great!

Finally, I tried the system from a moving vehicle. Unfortunately the audio quality was the worst when moving, either due to the antenna constantly moving to stay locked on the satellite, or due to the speakerphone, or both.

This is an Inmarsat / Glocom antenna using an L-band (~1500mhz) link to geostationary orbit. The lag time is pretty bad, especially when calling other satellite phones! It does work for Internet as well, but the service is slow, high-latency, and very overpriced. I wouldn't recommend using this for anything, as it's kind of old technology that can't compete with modern satellite systems. I just wanted to give it a try while it's still available.

You can find part 1 here:

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