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Just a stupid question. If you have a "help" message or a pre-programed personal message. Does it go to pre-programmed cell phone numbers, or do the folks you are sending the message to also have to have SPOT?
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Steve - I really really really recommend looking into an ACR PLB if you are serious about carrying a beacon. We each carry one year-round, for both winter and summer adventures.
Check out the differences between SPOT and a PLB here (scroll down for text): http://www.acrelectronics.com/faqs/spotvs.aspx
Contact me if you are interested or have any questions!
-Cedar
Is it a one time buy with no yearly few. All I know if you get stuck once. It will pay for it's self, and it darn well better work.
We offering a good deal on the all new SPOT 2 via the following website:
www.sledsafe.com
It is 149.99 with free shipping and 1 year of the free tracking option (for a limited time). We are selling these as cheap as we are allowed to by the company. With credit card fees, shipping, etc. it is not far off of cost. Anything extra will go back out to the snowmobile community.
Sledsafe is really set up just to get good gear out to snowmobilers at the best possible price. It is more of a cooperative effort between sledders and manufacturers, we are not a business or in business. We are working on getting avalanche beacons next.
Please visit the site to get more info or to order.
I have the original SPOT and am not thrilled with it. Have they improved the signal any?
Steve - I really really really recommend looking into an ACR PLB if you are serious about carrying a beacon. We each carry one year-round, for both winter and summer adventures.
Check out the differences between SPOT and a PLB here (scroll down for text): http://www.acrelectronics.com/faqs/spotvs.aspx
Contact me if you are interested or have any questions!
-Cedar
After carefully reading about both, I have another question. The SPOT will allow you to send a "Check In / OK" message to familly and friends. I didn't see that with the PLB. We have been stuck until 11:00 at night before, in no real danger because we are pretty prepared. We were out of town so no friends close by to contact. But if we were at home family would have been worried because we tell them where were at, A SPOT message saying we are alright would have been a good thing. Does the PLD have that capibility. I didn't see it.
Thanks everyone, this is very good info.............
The SPOT will allow you to send a "Check In / OK" message to familly and friends. ... Does the PLD have that capibility.