RomeoMike wrote:
I have no jungle experience but have plenty in the canyons, including
narrow ones, of Utah and Arizona. Also in Ponderosa pine forests.I've
yet to be in a place where the SAT phone wouldn't work. Just my personal
experience. Is it possible that Les was dramatizing his situation for
the show? I'm not familiar with it.

You need an unobstructed view of the sky for a sat phone to work
reliably. Foliage
absorbs microwaves - as others have pointed out. The solution, if you
are under a canopy,
is to find a clearing - if you can.