ScorpioVI
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Forgot to post these last night. I had turned on SPOT Tracking for this route before I left the motel. So it should have been tracking from 9:50 (when I left) to 6:50 (back at Motel 6) giving me 9 hours worth of tracking. 10 minutes per track, so I should have 54 tracks instead of the 39 it sent out, a 72% success rate.
As you can see the unit itself is mounted/zip-tied on the tail rack, that's about as good as it gets without mounting the damn thing on top of my helmet.
Here are the track comparisons, top one for the SPOT tracking feature, and bottom images is from my Garmin Zumo, via Mapsource. I was going clockwise by the way, don't know why it's numbering the tracks high to low.
And here they're overlayed one on top of the other. Yellow line is the GPS track from the Zumo.
It worked well enough where I really needed it though. That 56 mile stretch of dirt in the Carrizo Plain National Monument. That's where I would've been really screwed if I had a mishap, since there wasn't any help for at least 20 miles. I didn't see a single other human being since I went onto the dirt section. Worse come to worse and I fell down, badly injured, and unable to hit the 911 button, the folks watching my progress would've seen where my last track point was and get rescuers pretty damn close to my location.
As you can see the unit itself is mounted/zip-tied on the tail rack, that's about as good as it gets without mounting the damn thing on top of my helmet.
Here are the track comparisons, top one for the SPOT tracking feature, and bottom images is from my Garmin Zumo, via Mapsource. I was going clockwise by the way, don't know why it's numbering the tracks high to low.
And here they're overlayed one on top of the other. Yellow line is the GPS track from the Zumo.
It worked well enough where I really needed it though. That 56 mile stretch of dirt in the Carrizo Plain National Monument. That's where I would've been really screwed if I had a mishap, since there wasn't any help for at least 20 miles. I didn't see a single other human being since I went onto the dirt section. Worse come to worse and I fell down, badly injured, and unable to hit the 911 button, the folks watching my progress would've seen where my last track point was and get rescuers pretty damn close to my location.
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