Originally Posted By: hikermor
Would the outcome have been any different if you had transmitted any kind of urgent distress message?

So much for technology.....

Garmin claims that the SOS function still works. I believe this is true, since I'm aware of at least one recent (during this outage) SAR mission that was launched due to an inReach SOS.

What really makes me mad is that I had no indication that my messages weren't going through. I only learned what the problem was after I got back when I went to my "account" page. There, in a rather small note in the corner of the page it said there was a "Minor Service Outage". Only when I clicked on that did I discover why my messages didn't go through.
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