Experiences with sat phone rentals??
(I searched the archive and Google but came up empty on this - forgive me if this topic has been done to death.) We want to do more boondocking, but we have elderly infirm relatives -- we hate to b...
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Tiger4x4RV wrote:Ductape wrote:
If you can meet your needs with texting, the Garmin Inreach is very affordable. Send and receive texts from the irridium network for a price similar to cell service. But no voice calling.
Agreed, and I like my InReach. Do note that, at least on my 2-3 year old model, the InReach owner has to initiate the contact. You won't be receiving texts or emails unless in response to something you sent. I sent each of my major contacts a message and asked them to save it in an emergency folder so they would have something to "reply" to if they needed to get in touch. I agreed to check for messages at a certain time each day; much of the time my InReach is off to save its battery. I send a preset (free) message each day when I make camp, so they know I am OK.
current inreach is the same.
Once someone has a text or email from an inreach device, it is good forever to use as a reply method. But they must keep it.
What I do is have a contact list that I send a text/email to when we start a trip. that way they have a way to contact us anytime.
One exception to this on the latest version is that you can communicate between inreach devices at all times as long as you know the other inreach information.
Also the current inreach has 3 text message with contacts that are free to send at all times. And you can then create 20 additional text messages to store on the device along with a contact list that can be a large number of contacts. And then you can link it to your phone via bluetoon to send messages rather than typing on the inreach display. I just use my phone speach to text to make a new text message or select one of the saved ones.
I had a spot messanger, it is now out of use, its amazing how superior the inreach is to a spot.
