I have been working on a comprehensive communications plan with the family and one result has been the purchase of a second SPOT unit in case the first one goes belly-up. In a saltwater environment even supposedly waterproof electronic equipment can be damaged.
I catch the ferry to Port Hardy tomorrow. Final preparations only now.
Friday, May 28, 2010
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I keep my SPOT in an Aquapac GPS case and it seems to work through it with no problem. But redundancy is never a bad idea.
ReplyDeleteAnd when I was up there last year I noticed it took quite a while for the SPOT to get a signal (often up to 15 minutes or more). Don't know if it is because of being so far north or what.
Thanks for the heads up re the time it takes for SPOT to get a fix. We found a similar issue occasionally two years ago on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I recently found out that SPOT uses the GlobalStar system (in fact SPOT is a subsidiary of GlobalStar) and I know that GlobalStar sat phones are less reliable than Iridium, so it may be an issue with the satellites that they use.
ReplyDeletePS Thanks for your PaddleBC blog too - your campsites are all marked on my charts!
ReplyDeleteHave a grand time and paddle safe. Going to be following the blog for sure. Hope the weather is good and the winds fair.
ReplyDeleteDave