(Note from the editor: the low bandwidth of the Iridium email system can have strange effects as it shuffles data from one satellite to another, then downlinks to servers which may choke up with messages, resulting in emails squirting out of buffers days after they were sent. That's what...
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Good News deserves to be repeated verbatim......
Hello Ralph-
Just wanted to let you know that I spoke with Johnny Schutt tonight, and ALL members of G-058 are now happily camping together at South Miller Range. They had a long, successful day moving from CTAM. They were very much looking forward...
Hi all, I didn't hear from the ANSMET folks at Miller Range or CTAM directly, but I did hear from my McMurdo colleagues. The four ANSMET folks at CTAM (Jim, Jani, Manavi and Alex) spent the night there. They are scheduled to start Twin Otter flights up to...
Hi all, a little third-hand news courtesy of friends in McMurdo. The four ANSMET people who had been stranded for so long in McMurdo made it to CTAM late yesterday after one of the wierdest, longest delays in our 35+ year history of field work. They...