Attention adventurers: Do you have a personal beacon locator?

Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.

Back to original post

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

9-06-2008 @ 8:09PM

BrianM said...

The well known one used here stateside is SPoT: http://www.findmespot.com/

At $120 purchse price + yearly service fees, it's cheap enough for most people. It also has an "ok" and "help" feature aside from the "911/emergency" button. I just used one of these on a 2 week motorcycle vacation to keep my mother-in-law from harassing us with phone calls to make sure we were ok. The only down side is that it takes some time between when you hit a button and it actually sends the message (all done via satellite).

Add your comments

Your comments:

Remember me

E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.