Adventure ride Sunday 25/09/11

[Dwayne OMember]

:laugh: Heard from the boys about half hour ago, They are wet and at Wollombi Pub for lunch before the run home.
Appears TB may have entered the wrong link for his Spot for the trip , explains why it isn`t working , maybe :whistle:

Still a good idea to have more than one on the go for safety I reckon ,,,

[Jan Marais-van VuurenMember]

Hi Eagle,

Personally, I do not trust SPOT’s reliability for getting a safety message out. I use mine to give some comfort that I am still moving (that is if it functions which it does most of time) and “where is Jan?”.

For getting a SOS out, I always carry a GME MT410G 406 MHZ PLB on my belt so if I need to seek urgent assistance, I can get the message out. That is the only reliable international emergency service as it uses the dedicated Cospas-Sarsat international satellite system for search and rescue (SAR) and not a commercial system with limited global coverage (SPOT uses Globalstar – a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation for satellite phone and low-speed data communications).

As we are very often away from civilization, it gives that little bit of extra piece of mind.

Cheers, TT

[GregMember]

Yeah the spot address was wrong, just the link to the map page is all. I have never had it fail to sent a message or seen Nicks, or DJ’s fail to sent a message. Sometimes in the heavy wooded areas it doesn’t get every 10min plotting marker but again every single time no matter where I or anyone I have been with that has a spot has sent a message has it failed!!

Last year before we went to Camerons we looked at all the alternatives and the advice was a spot or a sat phone we took both. A spot also lets me notify 10 people everyday I am finished for the day and safe. I haven’t heard of someone that had their spot fail to help them when it was setup properly ( not sure what was wrong with STMs but if help was needed by spot it couldn’t have been the unit maybe setup )

I just set mine off now I am home and before I finished typing this it just sent me a text and Nickj and 8 others with my location and saying I am ok for the day
TB

[GregMember]

Here is the conformation on FB

Oh yeah and the page, remember it’s for the last 7 days so it has last weekends as well

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0SRRvPT3zAg2Q9osHtLsFST4PYNgjnGFA

TB

[Dwayne OMember]

That`s good to hear then
Hearing reports like that make it more comforting that they are indeed a good pice of kit for the $$$

Just need to be careful to link the correct page for family to check on I guess :whistle:

Cheers

[GregMember]

EAGLE`02 wrote:

That`s good to hear then
Hearing reports like that make it more comforting that they are indeed a good pice of kit for the $$$

Just need to be careful to link the correct page for family to check on I guess :whistle:

Cheers

Eagle family doesn’t follow the page It’s only for OBT :laugh:

TB

[Dwayne OMember]

I meant me when I get one actually, not you

Anyway , OBT is your family isn`t it ??? :laugh:

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