I knew anyone that worked in the field would recognize it right away, I used to always joke the first dish we installed wasnt anything to do with comms but was a big WOK for our bar-b-ques LOL

Yes the latency made telephone calls a bit of a disaster but it was more reliable that the HF comms which was our only other option in many cases, and infact we will have some sites where Satellite comms is all we have