Laura Halliday wrote:

"Richard Hosking" wrote in message .au...

No doubt this is an easy question, but is there a way of interfacing to the

web via HF SSB/data?

I want to be able to do this from a remote location portable/backpack with

no mobile phone access and low power. The nearest infrastructure could be

several hundred km away

I could use amateur bands or possibly a commercial solution if available.

What would be the data format and where would I get more info on this?

This shoulds like a job for a satellite. If worst comes
to worst, plug a modem in to a satellite phone and dial
up your ISP...

The first UoSATs were for exactly this sort of application:
take a briefcase-sized station in to the field and send
chitchat back to home base by satellite, completely
independent of terrestrial infrastructure, which may not
exist anyway.

We have satellite Internet here in Canada. It isn't cheap.

Laura,

We can only get a sat downlink here easily. The uplink is almost always
a dialup.

Rob