SAT phones aren't nearly as reliable as Inreach type texting. It's the same as being on the edge of mobile service, you can't reliably talk, but you can send/receive texts. Inreach also includes a link to a map with your exact coordinates, can a Sat phone do that? Inreach is cheap per month and you can suspend service as others have indicated.
Rubicons have D44's so 35's shouldn't require new axles. With automatic, 4:1 xfer case, 4.1 differentials, regear not needed for low range.I have a buddy here in CO who takes a 200x 4cyl (basically the same motor as the bulletproof 6cyl chopped in 1/2) manual trans TJ all over the state. He even rolled it on it's side a few times. They just flipped it back over and continued on.
I would LOVE to have a 4L TJ with some 5.13 gears on 35's. I guess it would need aftermarket axles for that...
We're more worried about a breakdown (ESS fails, broken FAD) than getting stuck. We won't roll it solo, we take the easy lines solo. We're worried about a break down and having to spend 20+ hours getting rescued.Just activate/deactivate the garmin service before your trip, ez. Pretty cool to be texting buds in middle of nowhere & them able to track your trip on the map link if they care to look (they donāt)
Yeah w/ the tech now Iād say biggest danger is just having a seizure or some weird personal mental episode where people fold their clothes and go off randomly etc, nobody around to stop you. Otherwise itās about avoiding the PIA inconvenience/cost of being mud bogged, flipped etc not actual serious danger so much. Although some areas are so wide open I actually can understand agoraphobics a little
For sure we'll add that sometime, problem is, wife wants the $2,500 for in-motion hardware so she can youtube while we're wheeling.Wife and I are fortunate to travel full time in an RV towing the Jeep. She has Visible (Verizon) and I have Cricket (ATT). Often only one or neither, will have signal. So we purchased Starlink for RV. Its expensive, but it doubles as our internet and cable TV solution. In regards to this thread, when set up we can make wifi calls as long as you have battery power and view of the sky.
Its $500 for equipment and $135/mth which can be paused. It has been a game changer for us. We eliminated a mobile hotspot and ditched dish.
We will be taking it along on future remote jeep trips in this home depot case with a 300w pure sine inverter.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-1...ainer-with-Hinged-Lid-in-Red-248921/313861297
As I approach 70, and having lived with all the modern conveniences for a couple decades now, going out to really remote country in these electronic controlled vehicles worries me a lot more than when it was a carburetor and a points distributor. At least I could fix one of those if something went south. So, when I bought the most recent GPS dog system for hunting, I got the one with Garmin's Inreach system built-in. I figure it will do dual duty for hunting and jeeping.
Iāve said it a million times, people die in commute traffic every day. The last thing Iām going to do is stop doing what I love out of fear. We will all die some day, and Iād rather it be on a solo trip than at work because I was scared to go out alone.
Probably one of the most important and less regarded things. I've helped people in the backcountry who got winded bending down to attach recovery gear. I'm like damn you'd be dead in the first mile if you had to walk
