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For serious hiking or outbacking, the units mentioned my joe are nice. They both require a subscription fee, either monthly or annually. The SportDOG collar does not require a subscription fee but it is limited in range.
With the SPOT messenger, you can go on an outback trip in California and your friends in Florida (or wherever) can track you if they have the website info. I imagine the same is true for the InReach system.
the buildings proposed are 32 ft. tall and on the slope of a hill so even with fast growing vegetation it will take quite awhile to screen this thing. It is also on a blind corner with just barely enough line of site for normal cars forget about class A motor homes. Not to mention the Property values for the poor folks in forest meadows as this facility is 4 buildings totaling 48000 sq. ft. This Facility is in the wrong zoning and by allowing it to go in we would be setting a bad precedent for the use of C1 in the future. Think about where the next storage facility could pop up.
For the purpose of letting friends and family know where you are in the outback, you might consider the SPOT Gen3 Satellite GPS Messenger. It seems to have a pretty good rating at REI. Unlike the dog collar, it’s not range limited.
Another, somewhat more expensive but more capable device is the DeLorme InReacg SE Two-Way Satellite Communicator with GPS. It’s ratings are even better than the SPOTFrom the Permit:
“permit to construct and operate an indoor RV and boat storage facility”also,
“A vegetation screen of fast-growing evergreen trees and shrubs will be established along the northerly and southerly boundaries of the site and between vehicle parking areas and adjacent streets and roads.”If this keeps RV’s and boats from being stored in residential areas….it may not be such a bad idea.. 😉
That’s a cool idea. The collar will definitely fit around your neck. Range is “up to” seven miles but probably much less up here in the mountainous terrain. The handheld device needs to stay in communication with the GPS collar. Good luck!
Thanks, Allen. Based on your posts I have ordered the same unit. If it works on the dog, maybe the family can use it to track me when I go down to fish the Stanislaus as well….
Power was out in unit 8 until about 10pm last night, maybe a little later. I understand it came back on about 4 pm but only lasted a few seconds. To avoid all the spikes and power fluctuations we ran the generator all day yesterday and last night. PG&E crews told a friend (about 7:30pm) they were finding a lot of large limbs on the power lines in several areas. I think there may have been a tree down on the power lines and they hadn’t found it at the time. There were four or five PG&E trucks staged in Arnold about 5pm last night. We went to Round Table. 😀
FYI, the power fluctuations took out one UPS, one surge protecting power strip, and who knows what else.
