Just trust Doug's short, but to the point message that it won't work. I've spent a great deal of time with SPOT's national sales people and worked with people that use SPOT and have me on their "friends" list. I am also familiar with Globalstar's satellite constellation that is used for SPOT messages. The reliability to send this type of message is just not there with the current technology. Understand that it can take sometimes 20 or 30 minutes for SPOT to get a single message to an orbiting bird. There is no way for you to know when the bird receives your message so it is impossible to time the next character for your morse code message.

I'm headed to the backwoods of Montana and Banff, Alberta this coming week and I will take a Globalstar 1600 which is very cheap right now due to reliability issues. I will not count on the 1600 for emergency communications, but use voice commuications for my "OK" messages. For emergencies, I will have an ACR MicroFix on my belt. Until SPOT moves into the area of text messaging, this combo gives me the flexibility I am looking for.

Craig.