Iridium satellite radio when there is no mobile network or Wi-Fi

There are sites where the mobile network does not reach and a UHF or VHF repeater cannot see the control room. There a PoC radio, even with Starlink, only works if the antenna and power sit with the team. Beyond that, satellite PTT is the line that remains.

Palo Security supplies Iridium satellite radios. Quantity is set in the quote. The Satellite PTT article explains group PTT over satellite, distinct from a satellite phone.

What Iridium does

An Iridium satellite radio does not use the operator tower or the camp Wi-Fi. It looks at the satellite, with open sky. It suits long convoys, prospecting, coast, reserves and posts far from the control room, when the team must talk to the base.

PoC, UHF/VHF and satellite

• On the site, with a repeater: UHF or VHF.
• Across districts, with a SIM or Starlink Wi-Fi: PoC.
• No tower, no Wi-Fi, open sky: Iridium.

Do not mix the three on the same channel. Each has its own set and its own request. Palo Security closes the kit according to the patrol route.

On the ground

1. Confirm that the team has open sky at the call point.
2. Decide who carries the satellite set — usually the vehicle or the supervisor, not every guard.
3. Agree with the base when and why to call, so the set is not used for talk that belongs on the site radio.

Tell us the number of sets and the kind of route. We prepare the quote.