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I do not. For example, I'll be hunting elk in the Big Horns this October solo in a few miles deep for 5 days. Want to keep my pack and gear under 40lbs. Lugging around extra electronics with back-up batteries is no good. Thanks for reminding me why a handhold mobile is important. Don't know why...

Thanks - this is the key to me.

For my application the PLB + inReach makes sense. I hadn't looked into these deeply enough and wasn't aware of the new Explorer version. I like redundancy despite the weight and cost penalties. I also fish the Great Lakes from an 18' Lund so having the PLB+marine radio connected to my Lowarance...

I'm surprised/disappointed that AFRCC hadn't done anything with the signal in 2 hours. I wonder if they were waiting for multiple satellite passes? My experience was that we got notification more quickly but mobilization takes time. Trying to DF an ELT/EPIRB/PLB signal without GPS coords was...

The PLB I'm using is the ACR 2881 ResQLink. I've chased plenty of ELTs and EPIRBS around so am very careful with it. On SPOT: my reading suggests that it's less than 100% reliable. So that knocked it out of contention for me. For instance, if my wife gets an 'all ok' message for 2 days but...

I've been following this forum for a few years and have learned a lot, thanks. My goal is to have the ability to communicate outside of cell phone range if I had an emergency while hiking, hunting or overlanding. I almost exclusively do these things by myself. So far my plan is to use a PLB but...