> Marketing the device to the widest > possible audience is probably the only way the company can turn a profit > (satellites are not cheap). It's also the most likely way that the device > will be devalued over time. > > At some point in the near future you can expect that SAR operations > undertaken on the basis of a lack of SPOT information will not happen unless > there is some other evidence of a problem independent of SPOT. When this happens, i.e. when SAR operations would commence only when problem has been reported by source other than SPOT, this will mark the end of SPOT usefulness and we may as well leave it home :-) *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Jul 20 2008 - 01:45:10 PDT
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