One issue to recognize when you have a device that appears to make it very easy to send a quick message home, the people at home come to expect the quick "OK" message. If anything should happen to the device, those at home would become more worried than if you didn't have the device at all. If you say that you will be gone for two weeks and people don't expect to hear from you during that time, they may have a low level of concern for 14 days, but won't really worry unless they don't hear from you by day 15. If you promise to check in 5 times a day and the device dies on day 7, they may be relaxed for those 7 days, but the next 7 will be extremely difficult. A SAR operation may be launched because of one dead battery. Nick On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Darryl wrote: >> > > No, I think the SPOT is a feel-good gadget for the stay-at-home worry- > wart. I'm open to being persuaded otherwise, of course.... > Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA Ph/Fx: (860) 659-8847 http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 31 2008 - 07:16:23 PST
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