First, PLEASE take the survey and let SPOT know what are looking for.
The more visibility that we can provide about our community to SPOT,
the better. I have talked with several people at SPOT related to the
tracking stuff I've been doing. I don't know dates or timeframes but
they do have a couple of new models on the drawing board to be
released some time in the next couple of years. The next model
probably won't include altitude but they do plan to have the tracking
mode send messages 3 times as the other modes do. This will
significantly increase the chances of a good message getting through.
They are seriously looking at altitude for the next model (again don't
have timeframes) as well as perhaps the ability to attach an external
antenna. As a related aside, I have setup a tracking site for the US
Paraglider Nationals in CA. They are starting to use SPOTS as well so
they have many of these same requests that we have.

In talking with SPOT, they were VERY surprised at just how popular the
device is becoming with the aviation community in general. So they
are attempting to work in features/enhancements that help support the
community.

Later!

-Mark
On Apr 28, 6:42*am, Andy wrote:
SPOT has launched a marketing survey. *There are lots of tedious
questions but there is the opportunity to say what features you would
llike to change. *There was just enough room to ask for tracking
reports every 5 minutes including altitude.

Maybe if enough of us ask they will listen.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=U2C3VASH4Y5D

Andy