Originally Posted By: paulr
....... Everyone wants to sell monthly subscriptions so they can sit back and collect revenue while doing nothing.

Sit around and do nothing? Not exactly.

IERRC

What you are paying for (among other things) is to have someone monitor 24/7 for SOS messages. And that someone needs to be knowledgeable about SAR, have a world wide database of SAR resources, etc. Oh yeah, and since this is not a tax supported entity, they need to turn a reasonable profit too.

You get what you pay for.
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