How do these audio feeds (starting Jan. 10 or so) from a mountainside in Argentina reach you here, on my blog? Some nifty, but not very pricey, technology makes it possible.
I am calling from a satellite phone, a Globalstar GSP-1600, a chunky handful of a communicator with an antenna so big and important-looking that every time I put it to my ear, I expect to hear orders from Starfleet Command. I rented it from an outfit in Oregon.
I call a phone number with a Pennsylvania area code and leave a voicemail. That voicemail is recorded as a sound file and forwarded automatically to my trusty and talented brother-in-law, Steve Sears, who posts it on The Ferris Files. And who helped figure all this out.
Big props to Steve for lending his talents to this project.
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