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m-r-h
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 Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 8:37am Post subject: Spot Satellite Tracking |
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Got my hands on a SPOT satellite messenger for the weekend. It has a tracking option which sends a GPS location every 10 mins. This allowed my wife to track me in real time as we went around Long Bays on Sat morning.
I took it again yesterday when I went Dyers -> Gebbies -> Basdrat and back hm but I accidently covered it up with my spare cycling top and it missed alot of transmissions..
Remember the difference between the SPOT and a Garmin for example is that the GPS data is transmitted from the SPOT to a satellite and then displayed real time, compared to the Garmin which can display the data once the ride is completed and downloaded.
The SPOT also has an "I'm OK", "I need Help" and "911" emergency buttons. The 911 button goes directly to Search and Rescue.. kinda cool for mtb biking and tramping etc
Anyway you can see my tracking data at:
http://share.findmespot.com:80/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0zMXuqDk0ZSEyIjpcQZcE5NJDdLFKR4ZE
"sales pitch" I can get these if anyone is keen !
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Dazzle
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It allows your wife to track your GPS in real time.... not you.
Hand the transmitter off to someone else to do a circuit and you can happily go get your clock cleaned at the knock shop. * 
* I have no idea what this euphemism means, I'm sure it is something nice about punch and pie.
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Elden
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 8:50am Post subject: |
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Deos it have the cycling functions of the Garmin? HR, speed, distance,power.
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Spokes
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 8:56am Post subject: RE: Spot Satellite Tracking |
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This allowed my wife to track me in real time
Fark that.
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m-r-h
Dusty
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 9:04am Post subject: |
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| Elden wrote: | | Deos it have the cycling functions of the Garmin? HR, speed, distance,power. |
No cycling functions at all.
Its a satellite messenger and thats it.. would be cool if they made a cycling version tho !
http://www.findmespot.com
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m-r-h
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 9:05am Post subject: RE: Re: Spot Satellite Tracking |
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| Spokes wrote: | This allowed my wife to track me in real time
Fark that. |
Be afraid, very afraid 
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Dazzle
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Tugboat
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 12:01pm Post subject: |
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Good idea - the concept: YES
Good idea - giving it to the wife: NO
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thekiwi
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| Tugboat wrote: | Good idea - the concept: YES
Good idea - giving it to the wife: NO |
Stuff .... if Im lying in a ditch out in the middle of no where and she knows where to find me ... its a brilliant idea.
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thekiwi
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 12:36pm Post subject: RE: Spot Satellite Tracking |
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| m-r-h wrote: | Got my hands on a SPOT satellite messenger for the weekend. It has a tracking option which sends a GPS location every 10 mins. This allowed my wife to track me in real time as we went around Long Bays on Sat morning.
I took it again yesterday when I went Dyers -> Gebbies -> Basdrat and back hm but I accidently covered it up with my spare cycling top and it missed alot of transmissions..
Remember the difference between the SPOT and a Garmin for example is that the GPS data is transmitted from the SPOT to a satellite and then displayed real time, compared to the Garmin which can display the data once the ride is completed and downloaded.
The SPOT also has an "I'm OK", "I need Help" and "911" emergency buttons. The 911 button goes directly to Search and Rescue.. kinda cool for mtb biking and tramping etc
Anyway you can see my tracking data at:
http://share.findmespot.com:80/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0zMXuqDk0ZSEyIjpcQZcE5NJDdLFKR4ZE
"sales pitch" I can get these if anyone is keen ! |
So what is the NZ price and from their site the subscription fees?
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Spokes
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 12:38pm Post subject: |
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| Tugboat wrote: | Good idea - the concept: YES
Good idea - giving it to the wife: NO |
I could not agree more. Cell phones are bad enough.
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mfw
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 1:16pm Post subject: RE: Spot Satellite Tracking |
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| m-r-h wrote: | | The SPOT also has an "I'm OK", "I need Help" and "911" emergency buttons. The 911 button goes directly to Search and Rescue.. kinda cool for mtb biking and tramping etc |
Could do with a long bays 'there's a howling Nor Easter coming through Gebbies I'm gonna be be 10 minutes late' button 
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chchbob
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 1:24pm Post subject: RE: Re: Spot Satellite Tracking |
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| mfw wrote: |
Could do with a long bays 'there's a howling Nor Easter coming through Gebbies I'm gonna be be 10 minutes late' button |
 You mean a howling Nor-Easter only adds 10 minutes .... 
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Spokes
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| Posted: Mon 22/Sep/08 1:30pm Post subject: |
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To me this kind of thing just takes the adventure out of it. 
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