I'm in N America at the moment and there are some attractive second hand deals on Iridium 9505a phones around. I'm going to buy one.
I noticed that you can buy a data kit like this: data kit or you can buy just the serial connector in the middle of that photo by itself.
I won't be needing the stand as I plan to have a fixed external antenna, does the software do anything?
I plan to use ugrib/grib.us but will eventually use e-mail with one of the services that removes the graphics etc..

Thanks for the advice.