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2. Stay Connected, Safe, and Worry-Free With the Best Satellite ...

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   Montana 700i Satellite Communicator. $699.99. amazon.com. More. Garmin holds nothing back in the Montana series. The 700i has a full-color 5-inch touchscreen that’s 50 percent larger than the ...

3. Satellite emergency notification device - Wikipedia

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   A Satellite Emergency Notification Device or SEND is a portable emergency notification and locating device which uses commercial satellite systems rather than the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. An example of this device is SPOT. The devices use an internal GPS chip to gather location information. When the SEND is triggered, this information is ...

4. Emergency locator beacon - Wikipedia

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   Emergency locator beacon. An emergency locator beacon is a radio beacon, a portable battery powered radio transmitter, used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress and in need of immediate rescue. Various types of emergency locator beacons are carried by aircraft, ships, vehicles, hikers and cross-country skiers.

5. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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   The Global Positioning System ( GPS ), originally Navstar GPS, [2] is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. [3] It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near ...

6. Transponder (satellite communications) - Wikipedia

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   A communications satellite 's transponder is the series of interconnected units that form a communications channel between the receiving and the transmitting antennas. [1] It is mainly used in satellite communication to transfer the received signals. A transponder is typically composed of: an input band-limiting device (an input band-pass filter ),

7. SPOT Satellite Messenger - Wikipedia

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   SPOT Gen3 Satellite Messenger. SPOT is a GPS tracking device that uses the Globalstar satellite network [1] to provide text messaging and GPS tracking (depending on the subscription type purchased). [2] [3] It has a coverage area that includes a large portion of the planet, with the exception of extreme northern and southern latitudes and parts ...