Hi David, Before the demise of riccochet technology it was a friend's
favorite.  He uses a 3W bagphone and a Yagi or "beam" antenna now and an
analog cellular modem.  I have used a "650" Flip phone a similar modem and a
3W Motorola vehicle installation and a "fringe" whip.  (no Ben, not that
kind). antenna.

That battery idea is pretty neat but I use my Optima and a 12v adapter for
the SPU.  The road SPU is an HP Omnibook 800ct from the past.  166mhz 80MB
is plenty fast for me especially over analog.  I take a portable CDRW and
upload the pics to the HDD and then archive to the CD.

The camera is an Olympus C2100UZ.  An ATA pcmcia card accepts the 128MB
smartmedia and views them as a hard disk so picture transfer is pretty
quick.

Organize the pix by days, zip em into a package, park em on the CD.  At your
next internet cafe, mail the zips to whomever.

128MB media allows ~250+ pics at a 1600x1200 JPEG or less at TIFF.  I carry
several Smartmedia of 128MB and 64MB sizes.  Fine for snaps and docs.  But
you might look into higher Pixel storage for enlarged results.  Olympus e10s
are around 1600USD at Best Buy right now.

EbaY has 800CTs for around 250USD.

Palms and Wincers can do the same work at less mass but much less
convenience.  My 800CT holds the mapping swill, the birding library, the
music, the Bently, the Etka (in scroll display) mode.

pensioner