"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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FWIW, current SPOT is http://tinyurl.com/FlyingPigSPOT. Still trying to
figure out their arcana about OK messages, but it's currently transmitting
while I try to make sense of their nonsense, and in their non-helpful help
files on the subject...

Thanks for the link. I'll bookmark it so I can tune in for a good laugh at
you sailing up and down the Interstate highways.

Wilbur Hubbard

"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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FWIW, current SPOT is http://tinyurl.com/FlyingPigSPOT. Still trying to
figure out their arcana about OK messages, but it's currently
transmitting while I try to make sense of their nonsense, and in their
non-helpful help files on the subject...

Thanks for the link. I'll bookmark it so I can tune in for a good laugh at
you sailing up and down the Interstate highways.

Wilbur Hubbard


Sorry, Wilbur, there will be no more of that. We've left, and once we get
to the Bahamas, don't expect to be back in the States until we get off the
boat.

As it is, the arcane and REALLY stupid instructions with SPOT make it so I
rarely succeed in making it send an OK message, the last such attempt
cancelling the test I was doing of it in the harbor here, where it managed
two "messages" (location points) before it stopped.

Still testing, still trying to make sense of their FAQ, instruction, and
help files and Lydia's not-very-patient repetition of what she does which
seems to work - but when I wrote down her instructions after I finally
figured out how to get back into their system online to get the current
share page, following them produced the above...

L8R

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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:25:57 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:

As it is, the arcane and REALLY stupid instructions with SPOT make it so I
rarely succeed in making it send an OK message, the last such attempt
cancelling the test I was doing of it in the harbor here, where it managed
two "messages" (location points) before it stopped.

You have to first configure an OK message on your personal SPOT web
page, a one-time thing unless you want to change something.

Next, press the OK button once. It should now send an OK message per
your settings assuming that it has got a current GPS position.

One of my "SPOT peeves" is that there doesn't seem to be any way of
knowing if it has a current GPS position. I'd like to see a small
display so it could also double as a pocket GPS unit and be able to
report its status.