"Pete C." wrote

Rent scaffolding and assemble a temporary test tower first. Also check
my other post about functional VoIP over satellite.

Pete C.

Pete: Puhleeze. I don't want my wife to know that you can RENT
scaffolding. She'll be having me do all sorts of work. I want to build a
observation tower out of telephone poles. For now, I'd just mount it on the
peak of the second floor of the cabin, about as good as all the effort to
put it on a pole.

I did some changes according to the things Skype sent me. I DID get it to
work on the test call to London from my lowland house, and it uses a dish
satellite for Internet service. It's just a DIFFERENT dish ISP service than
the one at the cabin.

We are driving to the cabin this afternoon for a couple of reasons, and I'm
going to test the unit up there now that I know it is at least working.

I worked on offshore platforms in the 70's. We had radio phones, and you
had to say "over" when you were through. Two people could not talk at one
time. If there is a latency problem, I can live with it for the purposes of
having a marginally working phone in the remote location. I'll post more on
this after the trip to the cabin, and after we get back in Las Vegas
tomorrow.

I did get the post about the cell phone antenna, and that's a thought.
Looking for a cell amp right now, and trying to find a price. We may have
another tower we can get that right now is too far. Problem is, the tower
that is closest to us is on the other side of the mountain, and the waves
don't penetrate.

Thanks for the help, everyone. We'll see how this works out.

Steve