Its a good way to let people know you are ok. it is not a substitute for an EPIRB. The distress signal goes to a private company that has to relay the information to the proper authorities. Sort of like an alarm company.
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Frederick G Street <f...@postaudio.net>wrote: > It's called the SPOT Connect, and I had one with us on Colin Kilgour's > adventurous delivery a year ago; I could send brief text messages from > offshore that had lat/long in them, noting our position. These messages > also showed up as locations on a map on the SPOT website. Pretty slick! > > Fred Street -- Minneapolis > S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( > > On Dec 25, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Rick Brass <rickbr...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > There is also something called a SPOT Communicator that also has a > Bluetooth > capability so you can use your cell phone or laptop to send messages via > satellite from most anywhere on Earth. > > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > > -- Joel 301 541 8551
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