Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
A couple people in this thread have recommended a SPOT or other SEND (Satellite-enabled notification device) but these are overkill for your purposes because your tour is going through urban and suburban areas. Also SENDs use private sat networks like Iridium which means you need to pay a fee to use them.
Yes. The 820 comes with an app for your phone; you tell the app you want to do a "live tracking" session, and give it your wife's email address. It will send her a link to a map with your current location (and heart rate and speed). If you lose reception for a moment, it will pick up when you get it back, and it will show the route you took while you didn't have coverage. I use this all the time with my Fenix 3.
Actually, I said suburban and rural areas, but I can test the cell coverage next weekend. I was going to drive the trip (to the Orlando area), on my way to Clermont. Hey. It's my first tour, and my wife is very nervous about me going solo. And I'd like there to be as little surprises as possible too. Next weekend, I'm going to Clermont to check out the extent of the hills for the Horrible Hundred in November.
Can more than one person track me with the 820, or is it limited to only one? I have some other family and friends who want to track me for fun.