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This is an automated response. This entanglement is no longer actively monitored, but your incoming communication has been reported.
The portion of the planet where Nick was happens to be visible from here, but unless Cam's phone is powerful enough to reach from a high orbit all the way down to the planet below he'll probably have to install a satellite relay. Or figure out backward compatibility with the one that's already here.
Cam's phone is fancy 2157 technology. It careth not for such distances.
"Hello, Cam. I think I've figured out the printer. Printed and assembled a brand new screw wrench. How's your quest going?"
"Well, I fixed the stargate, but nobody on the other end is checking their mail so I have a wait ahead."
"Of course you did, I'm starting to think you can do anything. Lucky."
"What's antimatter?"
"It's... the opposite of matter. If antimatter encounters matter they annihilate each other."
"Sounds dangerous. I'm still curious but you're not a textbook, so. What was wrong with the stargate?"
"Somebody bombed the facility. Some things were disconnected in what may have been a separate incident, but the bombing is why no one was around to fix it after."
"Nasty. I hope someone answers, it'd be amazing to see Earth. D'you know how long it's been since the gate went down?"
"I could dig up a date but I'd be surprised if you're still using this calendar -" Cam hunts for datelike things in the records he's been conjuring.
If he hunts for the surveys of this planet, it has approximately 26 hour days and obits its sun once every 312 earth-days.
"The bombing was in the year 2563, if that sounds about right to you, but your years and days are a different length on this planet."
"No, it seems we don't use the same calendar. By our reckoning it's year 384."
The automated response from the other side of the entanglement was also marked as 2894, but with a few seconds' difference. Whatever equivalent of atomic clocks they're using are not quite perfect, apparently.
"Station computer thinks it's now 2984. Which is not that far off from a 384 year difference in local years."
"I guess we were mostly right, then. Who would have thought."
"Time. I would have thought that Cloudbank is too decentralized to even be near correct when it comes to timekeeping."
"Well, I don't know how religious you are about syncing with each other but if you all started at the same time that makes some sense."
"I suppose if it's only been a few hundred years and not tens of thousands there's not that much time for little errors to add up."