[pct-l] personal locator beacons

[Ed Jarrett]

Cell service is not required for Backcountry Navigator if you pre-cache the maps or just load the map set upfront.

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> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:13:38 -0800
> From: rgraybill44 at gmail.com
> To: srhspaded at yahoo.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] personal locator beacons

> On the other hand, if you use the *Backcountry Navigator* app (which has no
> relationship to Delorme's *inReach*), download the PCT waypoints to it,
> turn on your smartphone's location services, and happen to have a
> connection to your service provider's network, then you can see quite
> precisely where you are and that you're still on the trail. And at many
> points along that 20 miles stretch, I did have cell phone service,
> sometimes even 4G, so I could use *Backcountry Navigator*.