[pct-l] SPOT Connect in N Cascades (Rebecca Wilcox)

[Diarmaid Harmon]

I gave up on spot and switched to DeLorme InReach. I now get confirmation of delivery and I can also receive text’s from my wife.
The spot for me in the PNW only went through @ 60% of the time. 

Diarmaid “Irish” Harmon
irishharmon at comcast.net
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, Guinness in one hand, steak in the other, yell 'Holy Sh**, What a Ride!"

On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:50:45 -0700
> From: Rebecca Wilcox <wilcox.rebecca at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] SPOT Connect in N Cascades
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> Glacier Peak area is exactly where our SPOT did NOT work in 2012. Two
> nights in a row "OK" messages were sent (or so we thought) but never
> received. Most of the rest of the trail worked fine, but if you're buying
> one just for that area, I wouldn't count on it working.
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>> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:30:45 -0700
>> From: Maxine Weyant <weyantm at msn.com>
>> Subject: [pct-l] SPOT Connect in N Cascades
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>> My husband wants me to get a SPOT Connect so I can send texts/updates via
>> my phone through a satellite connection.
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>> I just learned through another hiker blog that the SPOT products don't
>> work well in WA.
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>> Has anyone out there used this product in the Glacier Peak section in the
>> last year?
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>> Dys-feng shui-nal
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