[pct-l] personal locator beacons

[Ed Jarrett]

On at least my Droid Bionic, the GPS is independent of cell service.  I used it for a month last year and almost always had the phone set to airplane mode to conserve the battery.  The GPS still worked just fine.  Only needed to come out of airplane mode to establish a bluetooth connection to SPOT.

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> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 13:25:56 -0800
> From: dennis.phelan at gmail.com
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] personal locator beacons
> 
> However if you don't have cell service i don't believe the GPS
> functionality works and therefore you don't see the nice little flashing
> spot that tells you where you are on the trail.  However you do have a nice
> map that does show the trail and the mile markers.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Ed Jarrett <edjarrett at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> > Cell service is not required for Backcountry Navigator if you pre-cache
> > the maps or just load the map set upfront.
> >
> > Ed Jarrett Blog: http://aclayjar.blogspot.com/  Twitter:
> > https://twitter.com/EdJarrett53 Facebook:
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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*.
> >
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