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Nate Skate



01/27/2010 6:35 PM Alert 

 http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=190

Now you can tell people exactly how far up "s" creek you are.

Craig Miller
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01/27/2010 6:48 PM Alert 
Oooh, that's a nice piece of gear.

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Tom Thomas



01/27/2010 7:03 PM Alert 
now that may be worth having. I returned the original SPOT after figuring it wouldn't receive or send user inputted text. You know the next model will receive text, so I'm holding out.
Joe Koegler
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01/27/2010 11:02 PM Alert 
Posted By Tom Thomas on 01/27/2010 7:03 PM
now that may be worth having. I returned the original SPOT after figuring it wouldn't receive or send user inputted text. You know the next model will receive text, so I'm holding out.



 

We have a 1st gen SPOT. It was only $50 after rebates and discounts applied after the 2nd gen was released. We'll hold onto that until this is available. Quite a step up being able to text a mssg to your contact list.


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Tom Thomas



01/28/2010 12:37 AM Alert 
yea $50 is affordable "piece of mind" (I think that's what they call it when it makes you feel better).

Oddly, the only "people" on my contact list that would've rescued me are my hounds, and they'd be with me anyways, so it was sort of like a "catch 22", and I returned the unit ;)
Andy Berglund
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01/28/2010 12:09 PM Alert 
So the new DeLorme still requires a separate SPOT transceiver? Too bad it wasn't integrated into a single unit. That would be a much better device.

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Craig Miller
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01/28/2010 5:28 PM Alert 
It looks like it comes with the transmitter, but that it uses bluetooth so you can locate the antenna someplace with visibility to the sky.

As a software developer I have hope that I might be able to tap into that connection and ditch the DeLorme handheld portion while in the truck. :)

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Andy Berglund
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01/28/2010 6:57 PM Alert 
Well described that way it sounds kinda cool.

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