Inreach Mini

Dan,

Inreach prices have dropped a lot.

https://explore.garmin.com/en-US/inreach/

They could do a better job of explaining their plans... but guys paying $150 a year for Spot 1, 2 or 3 might want to take a look. I use the safety plan and suspend for the off season.

-Evan




On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 4:45:06 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
I was actually looking at inReach until I found the following in the
small print:



Minimum cost is $49.90 on the inReachâ„¢
Safety Plan, $64.90 on the inReachâ„¢ Recreation Plan, $89.90 on the
inReachâ„¢ Expedition Plan and $119.90 on the inReachâ„¢ Adventurer
Plan.




Ii appears that if you just leave the
thing in a bag for emergency use, you'll pay $29.95 to activate
the unit, $0.30/track point if you use it for tracking,
$0.85/message if you send (or I would guess) receive a text, and,
if you don't use it enough to get up to $49.90/month, that's what
you'll pay as a minimum.Â* Then there's the acquisition cost...



That rivals DirecTV in cost and I dumped them.



On 2/6/2019 11:56 AM, Tango Eight wrote:



On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 1:29:49 PM UTC-5, Dan Daly wrote:


On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 11:08:46 AM UTC-5, Tango Eight wrote:


Inreach is useful in non-emergency situations when working phones are scarce. I used to arrange one retrieve last Summer, worked great. Service is $20 a month, $2 a month when suspended, in case this clears up any misconceptions about that.


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On 2/6/2019 5:31 AM, Tango Eight wrote:


Has anyone found anything not to like about the Inreach Mini?




@T8 - perhaps in the U.S.; here in Canada it's $44.95 plus 13% tax/month for the plan that can be suspended ($34.95/mo annual with no suspension). We have great OGN coverage that will give the Rescue Coordination Centre a good starting point. To me, not worth it here - but at half the price, maybe.
Cheers


Check out the "safety" plan.

-T8





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Dan, 5J