Spot GPS

[teamgreen]

Anyone still using a Spot device? My little brother asked if I still had one so I dug it out of my bin of stuff. Looked and its US$150 for a year subscription, wondering if there is a better option, or if anyone has found a promo code to restart their subscription.

Cheers!

 

[catalac]

I have 2 of them after being ripped off a couple years ago, they work great but are expensive I too would like to find a cheaper option. I emailed them said too expensive could you offer any discount and they did, $100 Us per device.

 

[pipes]

I have 2 of them after being ripped off a couple years ago, they work great but are expensive I too would like to find a cheaper option. I emailed them said too expensive could you offer any discount and they did, $100 Us per device.

InReach by Delorme, now owned by Garmin. You used to have the option of suspending you subscription when not using it when Delorme own it. I pay $36.70 a month.

 

[crashidy]

Call and complain that will get you back down to 100. The upped the charge as everyone now pays for the tracking function.

 

[Dawizman]

One of my buddies has one. We used it up on the hill a few weeks back to send a text for a parts run, but the text never made it though. Inreach seems to work better in my experience.

 

[ABMax24]

Get an Inreach, the device is far more capable than a spot will ever be. They also run on 2 totally different satellite networks.

The Spot runs on the Globalstar system which has 24 satellites orbiting earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalstar

The Inreach runs on the Iridium constellation and has 66 satellites orbiting the earth guaranteeing that at any moment you can connect to one if you have a clear view of the sky, and makes it far more likely to be able to connect in an area with obstacles in the way such as mountains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellation

I have had it take over an hour to send a message from a Spot device, but it never takes more than 5 minutes to send a message from my Inreach, and in an emergency those minutes can easily be the difference between life and death.

 

[Rbrduk]

InReach by Delorme, now owned by Garmin. You used to have the option of suspending you subscription when not using it when Delorme own it. I pay $36.70 a month.

Still the same. 3 bucks a month to suspend.
I just reactivated mine today.

 

[skegpro]

Still the same. 3 bucks a month to suspend.
I just reactivated mine today.

Really, that is interesting.
Definetly not an option with the spot products.

 

[AreWeThereYet]

Still the same. 3 bucks a month to suspend.
I just reactivated mine today.

I have mine activated Nov-April, and suspended the other 6mths of the year, thing is DON'T cancel,.. just suspend or you will get charged a reactivation fee.