SPOT Satellite Messenger

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Very cool! Makes me wonder how we survived before the age of the internet, sat phones and GPS.
 
Dave,

i love watching this blog being updated so regularly. I look forward to seeing how far you take this passion and enthusiasm for exploration. I just hope that one day you will feel the urge to trip out here and live out of the cruiser here on the east coast somewhere so that I can join you on some of your multi-day adventures.

Smit
 
That's funny you posted this because I was just looking for something like this yesterday. I was poking around on the net looking at stuff. Most of he GPS locators rely on cell phone tech to transmit there location. Not good for us back country travelers. This is the exact thing I was looking for. And it's not to expensive either. Thanks
 
I went and looked at it, but I would prefer a unit that's hard wired, always on, always broadcasting, so the person I chose back home could always find me, no mater if I'm alive, dead, or unconcious. So that if I don't come home when I'm supposed to they can contact the proper search and rescue and then they could use it t find me.

I supose a ham radio might be the better option for me. I don't know alot about ham radio, but the trails Ive run, and the people that I was with that had ham, were always within range of a repeater. If I'm going to have to be the one to transmit for help, I'd rather be able to use the transmitter as a radio as well, when I'm not using it for an emergency.

I know you have ham, what are your thoughts on this?
 
Problem with ham radio is like you said... you have to have repeater coverage. If you dont your screwed. Having coverage isn't always a option. I know of someone using APRS (tracking through ham) and it stopped working for them going down the highway. So lets say your in Death Valley.... and you get injured, you have to get radio coverage 1st. So its useless if you cant. You going to find a repeater for your entire trip? What if you cover 200-300 miles? Before your trip you going to line up repeaters on your radio so you know what freq to use?

Secondly all it does is show your whereabouts.. it doesn't contact agencies or anything like that. All it does is show you on a website.

The other thing is.... you cannot use your HAM at the same time your being tracked. It's one of the other unless you have a dually.

I already looked into this before the SPOT unit. And.. its about $300 bucks for the transmitter... plus you have to have a GPS to link it up with or else it doesnt work at all.

With this, all i have to do is push a button, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. No brainer.

As for the dead body part.... im being tracked every 10 mins via spotrack on our trips. If i dont check in with family or never show back at home.. they'll go the last spot i recorded.
 
Yeah, your family and friends can track your way via google maps. Every 10 mins SPOT sends out a signal where you are. This is a example from tonights test from work to home.. for unlimited.. it's $49 a year.

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SOCALFJ said:
Yeah, your family and friends can track your way via google maps. Every 10 mins SPOT sends out a signal where you are. This is a example from tonights test from work to home.. for unlimited.. it's $49 a year.
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So you just leave it on and it automatically broadcasts every 10 minutes? If that's the case then that would be what I'm looking for. Does it come with a cig lighter adapter, so the batteries don't run down?
 
cmjrfan8 said:
So you just leave it on and it automatically broadcasts every 10 minutes? If that's the case then that would be what I'm looking for. Does it come with a cig lighter adapter, so the batteries don't run down?
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Yep, that's correct for 24 hours straight. After the 24 hours is up.. you just push the button again.

Umm.. no on the cig lighter.. but it uses like hardly any power. Something like 7-10 full days straight of tracking if it had too and 14 straight days of 911 or something crazy like that. Dont recall what the manual said exactly. Just uses AAA and you can carry some spares with you.

Im telling you it's an amazing device man.
 
Pretty damn amazing what they are coming up with these days.
 
You bastard!!!!:censor:

Went to REI today.























Yea, I bought one:D
 
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