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lcottrell

Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 1494
Location: Jordan Valley, Or

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:45 am Post subject: Spot tracking

Hi,

     Most of you know that I fly over some  of the least populated land mass in North America. While I love it, my wife has  legitimate concerns on how to find my dead or disabled body if the worst should  happen. I got a Spot last December, but did not get the tracking feature with  it. Last summer I bought a ICOM radio for a base station so that I could  communicate with her and the range is quite good. John H was able to talk to us  from 60 miles out, but it is of course line of sight and the higher the better.  I decided this year to get the tracking feature and just turn it on every time I  fly. It sends a location every 10 minutes, so that should narrow the search  pattern quite a lot. My problem with it before has been finding somewhere to put  it that it could see the sky. This is my solution.

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 While I haven't been able to take a test flight  with it as of yet, the static test appear to be just what is needed. I created a  "Shared page" that sends a notification to my friends that appear to be  interested in seeing where I am flying. 

  

 Filing a flight plan is a bit overkill when one  is just flying in circles or down to my favorite fishing hole, but notification  and a track on the home computer will do a lot to make my friends envious and  the wife a little happier.

 Larry C

  

  

  

  

 Note: If you forward this email, please delete the  forwarding history, which includes my email address.

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frank.goodnight(at)att.ne
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Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:39 am Post subject: Spot tracking

HI ALL,

My son gave me a spot for xmas, when I went on line to register and activate it they had me return it to the factory seems like there is some kind of trouble.They are supposed to 

send me a new one as soon as they are available . Don't know when that will be.I don't know if the older ones that have been in service for a while have the same problems, You 

might want to contact them and see.  [ could easily be kolb related if you fly a kolb like Larry C and myself ]

Frank Goodnight

firestar 2

Brownsville TX



On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Larry Cottrell wrote:

[quote]  Hi,

     Most of you know that I fly over some of the least populated land mass in North America. While I love it, my wife has legitimate concerns on how to find my dead or disabled body if the worst should happen. I got a Spot last December, but did not get the tracking feature with it. Last summer I bought a ICOM radio for a base station so that I could communicate with her and the range is quite good. John H was able to talk to us from 60 miles out, but it is of course line of sight and the higher the better. I decided this year to get the tracking feature and just turn it on every time I fly. It sends a location every 10 minutes, so that should narrow the search pattern quite a lot. My problem with it before has been finding somewhere to put it that it could see the sky. This is my solution.

 <DSCF1469.JPG>

 <DSCF1467.JPG>

 While I haven't been able to take a test flight with it as of yet, the static test appear to be just what is needed. I created a "Shared page" that sends a notification to my friends that appear to be interested in seeing where I am flying. 

  

 Filing a flight plan is a bit overkill when one is just flying in circles or down to my favorite fishing hole, but notification and a track on the home computer will do a lot to make my friends envious and the wife a little happier.

 Larry C

  

  

  

  

 Note: If you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address.



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lcottrell

Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 1494
Location: Jordan Valley, Or

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:00 pm Post subject: Spot tracking

This is the link that they send. You have to reduce it on  the slide scale since they don't take close ups around here. 

 http://share.findmespot.com/shared/gogl.jsp?glId=0siAoTNYTZD6KPbiDncNLfKZruRqx5nUO

  

 Mine is the old one. Not sure what you ran into Frank, but  the newer one is supposed to be a bit easier to use.

 Larry

  

  

  

  

 Note: If you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history,  which includes my email address.

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject: Spot tracking

Larry:

  

 I got 4 hits this afternoon, every 10  minutes.

  

 john

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John Hauck

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 4639
Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:12 pm Post subject: Spot tracking

Sorry guys, thought I was sending bc to  Larry.

  

 john hauck

 mkIII

 titus, alabama

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   This is the link that they send. You have to reduce it    on the slide scale since they don't take close ups around here. 

   http://share.findmespot.com/shared/gogl.jsp?glId=0siAoTNYTZD6KPbiDncNLfKZruRqx5nUO

    

   Mine is the old one. Not sure what you ran into Frank,    but the newer one is supposed to be a bit easier to use.

   Larry

    , which includes my email address.

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