[pct-l] Anyone have experience with SPOT-2 satellite messengers? Any alternative options?

[Dan Engleman]

thanks for updating me ... my apologies to the list for any confusion I  have caused ... I should know better than to post on anything techy ... 
 
Spot 2 sounds pretty cool ... 
 
Dan
 
 
 

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 From: Dan Jacobs <youroldpaldan at gmail.com>
To: "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Anyone have experience with SPOT-2 satellite messengers? Any alternative options?
  
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Dan Engleman <danengleman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I own a Spot 1 and a Spot 2.   I used Spot II on a thru hike, in 2011.  If I do another thru hike, I will probably take the older version of Spot with me. Reason being, you don't have to have a phone with you to make it work; if something happens to your smartphone (which happened to me in the Sierras) your Spot 2 is worthless.
>
> Dan

I believe you are speaking of the SOPT Connect, which can link to a
smartphone to send short messages. The SPOT 2 does not need any other
device to use all of its features. The 1 and 2 designations when
referring to the SPOT units is a version number: 1 is the older
version, larger, heavier, uses AA batteries; 2 is the newer version,
uses AAA batteries, is smaller, lighter, has a slightly better
transmitter, and the ability to send a "custom" message that the user
sets up ahead of time on the SPOT website to send a message like an OK
message.

With any SPOT device, if there is a recommendation in the owners
manual to use lithium batteries, do just that. Another email list I
belong to had a report of alkaline batteries ruining two SPOT units.
SPOT tech support said that using any other batteries besides lithium
can cause permanent damage that won't be covered under warranty.

Dan Jacobs
Washougal
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