He did it, British climber Rod Baber made a
cell mobile phone (apparently using a
MOTORIZR Z8, not a satellite phone) call
from the top of Mount Everest. In fact, he made the record breaking call twice: the first to a voice mail account, the other to his wife and children. He even sent a text message to Moto which read, "One small text for man, one giant leap for mobilekind - thanks Motorola." Real cute, Rod. The Motorola sponsored "world record" was made possible by a Chinese mobile base station installed with a line of sight to the north ridge. Officially, the calls were made at 29,035 feet (about 8,848 meters) in temperatures of -22 degress fahrenheit (-30 degrees centigrade) -- so cold that Rod had to tape the batteries to his body just to keep them active. We're not sure where he stored the banana-shaped Z8. Of course, anyone who has ever made a call from a commercial aircraft (hey, it happens) knows that it's really not a record, but who are we to argue with Guinness?
[Via
BBC, thanks Mook]
posted May 22nd 2007 5:59AM
>We're not sure where he stored the banana-shaped Z8
you just couldn't resist, could you, Thomas?
dude, that is radically extreme to the max! that guy is doin' the dew fer sure!!
Thats because commercial aircraft doesn't use the same cell phone system, they have their own. It uses different frequencies and usually communicates with satellites.
I thought they meant using a conventional mobile phone from a commercial flight. Something, I've had the opportunity to experiment with a number of times. I haven't tried it for years, though. Of course, unlike Rod, I was able to wear short sleeves without freezing solid.
Actually, he meant some people use their normal cell phone from a plane. My old boss has done this for years. She talks throughout her flights and has never had a problem.
If a mobile station was set up specifically to support this venture then what's the big deal?
Agree! It's like setting up a station locally on an airplane and make a phonecall from the plane..
I dunno, I've made some pretty high calls before. =)
They weren't talking about shrooms or ex.
Wait a minute!!! This guy climbed all the way till the top of mount
everest just to make a phone call!! why didn't he just use some
public phone boot to do that
just kidding.....keep it up Rod Barber!!
What about the cellphone call made from the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea, the Cayman Trough, at 25,216ft down? Doesn't that count for anything?!
IF true, this is waaaay more impressive a feet than setting up a MBS specifically for these calls. Do you have a link MaXK?
He messed up the text message it should have been
"One small text for A man, one giant leap for mobilekind - thanks Motorola"
Yeah, you can make cell calls from airlines. Just look at the people from Flight 93 who were calling home in the middle of the hijacking. I do wonder if you need analog capability to pull it off, though, so you may be limited to dual-mode CDMA models.
Guilty.. ive used my phone on a plane before.. (OH NO FAA IS GANNA GET ME!!! AHH)
i saw mythbustes and how the gsm band signals do not intrupt the planes navigation at all.... so yeah..
the guinnes shuold be for the tecnicals and engineers that instal the Chinese mobile base station, the imalaya is not a easy work area
Citation; http://physics911.net/cellphoneflight93
Conventional cell phones don't work at 30,000 feet. The phone calls from flight 93 were a lie.