King Brown
Registered User
Nova Scotia
Any reports, and how compare with new SPOT texting, please?
I've had a Spot for quite a few years and it has performed well for me. I flew 80 some hours in July and had 2 missing reports and most of that time was in Canada and Alaska where Globalstar coverage is spotty. No complaints from me with my Spot.
But I've always felt the ten minute interval between reports was too long for airplane use. So in August I looked at the InReach SE and the plans available for it. All of the standard consumer plans are also ten minute gaps except the most expensive plan at two minutes. That plan is $75 per month. But I found they offer what they call the Enterprise side of their program and reports down to 30 seconds are available. You buy so much data per month and it can be used for both texting and reporting position. At a five minute interval their plan 2 gives you about 19 hours per month. Texts would reduce that some. There is a chart that spells out how much data is used per report and text. You also have the option to pick your reporting increments. The cost is $26 per month for this plan. So I bought the SE and have been using it now long enough to know I like it, especially the five minute reports, at a reasonable cost.
The ability to text using an iPhone from anywhere is a big plus too.
I've had a Spot for quite a few years and it has performed well for me. I flew 80 some hours in July and had 2 missing reports and most of that time was in Canada and Alaska where Globalstar coverage is spotty. No complaints from me with my Spot.
But I've always felt the ten minute interval between reports was too long for airplane use. So in August I looked at the InReach SE and the plans available for it. All of the standard consumer plans are also ten minute gaps except the most expensive plan at two minutes. That plan is $75 per month. But I found they offer what they call the Enterprise side of their program and reports down to 30 seconds are available. You buy so much data per month and it can be used for both texting and reporting position. At a five minute interval their plan 2 gives you about 19 hours per month. Texts would reduce that some. There is a chart that spells out how much data is used per report and text. You also have the option to pick your reporting increments. The cost is $26 per month for this plan. So I bought the SE and have been using it now long enough to know I like it, especially the five minute reports, at a reasonable cost.
The ability to text using an iPhone from anywhere is a big plus too.
Do you still have the Iridium 9575? Why the InReach instead of the Iridium? Both offer tracking and texting and SOS messaging but only one offers voice calls. It seems the 9575 would be better.