[pct-l] SPOT Locator beacon

[Philippa Nye]

If you pay extra for the service, it sends locator
messages every 10 minutes.  They are recorded on the
SPOT website and anyone you give your access code to
can go to the website and look at where you are and
where you have been each ten minutes.  It will display
on a Google satellite map , a topo or a road map.  

--- Halfmile <halfmile at pctmap.net> wrote:

> Phillippa,
> 
> Just curious, what is the SPOT tracking function
> suppose to do?
> 
> --Halfmile
> 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Philippa Nye
> <philippanye at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Someone asked about the SPOT locator beacon.  I
> bought one a week ago and have been testing the
> tracking function while hiking and driving, and I
> have to say I'm not too happy with it.  I spent
> about 3 hours out walking today, alot of it on a
> beach that was WIDE open to the sky, and the thing
> did not track me once.  It is not very clear why it
> doesn't work in certain really open areas (in this
> case it was hooked to my belt, so maybe it doesn't
> work well in that position), but it definitely
> doesn't seem to work when there are trees within a
> hundred feet or so.  My assessment so far is, better
> than nothing but I hope if I have an emergency that
> I'm mobile enough to get out in a really open area,
> otherwise I'm SOL.
> >
> >    I'll report more as I test it more.
> >
> >  
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