> Rather than informing the contact people to expect no further messages, > wouldn't it be easier to tell them this on the Day One, calling from the > destination airport - expect no further messages until such and such date, > give or take 2 days? Alex I plan to use my SPOT in the following fashion. I plan to each evening transmit an " I am OK message" My wife and son will hopefully receive the emails. They both know the problems with the SPOT system and realize that "no news is not necessarily bad news". I want to use it for this trip because weather may change my route and return time. I have Plan A, Plan B and Plan C not to mention a willingness to create Plan D if necessary. Hopefully SPOT will let Gladys and Martin know if my route changes. I am currently following a group circumnavigating Baranof Island. From what I can tell their SPOT is working. I warned them ahead of time to make sure the give their SPOT unit plenty of time to pick up the satellite. I thought about listing Paddlewise as one of my email recepitants. However I was concerned that if the unit failed it would cause unnecceary worry among friends when there was no need for concern. Thoughts? Bob *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Jul 19 2008 - 17:10:45 PDT
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