"R. P. McMurphy" wrote:
On 05/12/2015 01:18 PM, wrote:
I like that feature so I can monitor
the radar maps during bad storms. That alone was worth the price about 2
years ago, when I was camping near a river which was flooding. One look
at that radar map, and I knew it was time to pack up and evacuate the
area.
If you have cell service at your camp site, you're not really camping.
Did they have remote control natural gas campfires and wifi too?
True about needing cell service for immediate weather updates. However
if you use the right map app (Google or CoPilot for example) most of
the other map functions will work without cell service and are quite
handy when hiking and camping in the wilderness.
They do require that you preload the maps of course but with modern
phones that's not a problem. I keep all of North America on mine and
it hardly makes a dent in the SD card.