Alex said: > Unlike SPOT, EPIRB transmits your current coordinates non-stop, > changing > coordinates if you're moving, after you've activated it and until the > batttery > is gone, which is from 20 to 36 hours depending on water temperature. [Steve Holtzman] Alex, One correction. The SPOT continues to transmit your updated location every 5 minutes until the batteries die (typically around 7 days) in the 911 mode (the one you should be using for life and death situations, the same situations you would activate an EPIRB for) or until you manually cancel it. In the HELP mode (which I have changed my message to read that "I'm OK, but the weather has changed and I will remain here overnight, the message is sent every 5 minutes for 1 hour. I could always activate that function a second, third, or however many times I wanted. The "OK" function transmit the message 3 times and then stops. I use it as a tracking function during the day. So basically, the SPOT has the same function as an EPIRB, and it ALSO has some additional functions. Steve Holtzman *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Sep 23 2008 - 04:04:52 PDT
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