flyboy1963
Well Known Member
I am surprised at the lack of comments with SPOT taking away the lower cost option of 'basic'.
It now costs $200 to have any subscription at all, ($300 Canadian!) so I have not renewed for this year.
I looked at the inReach several years ago when upgrading from SPOT gen 1 to 3, and found it to have limited options for tracking.
Now that Garmin bought out inReach, and there is a $500 unit, with subscription of $30 a month that equals the 5 minute tracking of SPOT, I am leaning in that direction.
The old SE basic unit for $350 has been discontinued, of course!
Last weekend at a Survival exercise, one of the participants found that his inReach signal did NOT get out.
.........perhaps 50% scrawny tree cover. it uses the Iridium sat network, purported to be reliable.
any pireps out there? I think most of us know SPOT capabilites, (including a bit of a cash grab from it's thousands of users.)
when I called and complained, they did offer to discount to the old rate for one more year....but I declined. ( Not sure who won that game!?)
It now costs $200 to have any subscription at all, ($300 Canadian!) so I have not renewed for this year.
I looked at the inReach several years ago when upgrading from SPOT gen 1 to 3, and found it to have limited options for tracking.
Now that Garmin bought out inReach, and there is a $500 unit, with subscription of $30 a month that equals the 5 minute tracking of SPOT, I am leaning in that direction.
The old SE basic unit for $350 has been discontinued, of course!
Last weekend at a Survival exercise, one of the participants found that his inReach signal did NOT get out.
.........perhaps 50% scrawny tree cover. it uses the Iridium sat network, purported to be reliable.
any pireps out there? I think most of us know SPOT capabilites, (including a bit of a cash grab from it's thousands of users.)
when I called and complained, they did offer to discount to the old rate for one more year....but I declined. ( Not sure who won that game!?)