struggled today to get my satellite-texting device figured out. It's a Spot-X. It text-messages to/from via satellites, works all the important places on earth (tho not everywhere), and it's GPS so each msg has lat/lon coordinates showing where sent from, plus it tracks at set time intervals, and posts the points to a public MAP, so y'all can follow along the progress. Unfortunately: the map only retains 7 days of data. Dumb!

Further, anyone can text me via the SpotX at 254.543.8348.

(My regular cell phone should work normally much of the way as well.)