My In-Reach should arrive tomorrow and I plan to run it through some tests. I tried the SPOT connect, and my home station did not receive consistent notifications that I was sending. I was hiking in the mountains of North Carolina and the SPOT could not maintain a good signal. I have had good luck with it in the desert, but the heavy forest and hills were too much interference. I will go out there again to see how the In-Reach does. I will post about it after I do.