Live mobile digital BASE jumps

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The whole of Europe is just about covered now so that you can use mobile phones from anywhere. So with my new "hands free mobile telephone microphone" we have started phoning up our buddies at exit points and giving them live BASE jumps. Getting one of these phone calls is a real rush. Hearing the nervousness of your friend as he approaches a 1000 foot cliff exit point in Switzerland while I sit at my computer during a rainy day at work. Then hearing the rush of freefall wind. Velcro ripping. PIlot chutes inflating. One can even hear the pins popping on a Perigee Pro. Then getting live talk throughs down to landing. It doesn't replace the real thing but its a good gift to somebody that couldn't join a trip to an object. We are going to try to stream these out live over the internet using a Real Audio Server. More on that later.

Watch out we might be calling some folks stateside in the middle of the night soon :-)

/Lukas

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so are you working for Finnish Nokia, or Erickson ;-)
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Hey Lucky Lukas,

Feel free to give me a call.

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These little towers are also fun for jumping here in AZ...They're everywhere!!!

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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Oct-30-00 AT 10:00 PM (PST)[/font][p]Just be careful.

Anyone ever heard of Dan Osman? He went in (rope jump off Leaning Tower in Yosemite) with a "live mobile digital" cell connection to some friends. I bet it pretty much sucked to be on the other end of that call.

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Yeh, that must have sucked. Dan Osman was an awesome climber, and pretty much a BASE jumper at heart too from what I have seen from several rock climbing videos. I never jump without my mobile phone anymore, it comes in handy when "egression" from non-legal objects becomes "rushed" and you and your teammates need to re-group.