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Well I bought a Garmin watch.  I wanted a Smart watch anyhow and Basspro had a great price.  Way too many features but it will give me hours of entertainment trying to figure out how to get it to work!     And I know what wife is getting me for birthday!    

West Montrose.   Assemco in Maryhill is where they are building the sled trailers.

Biggest issue is mounting it.  Some guys with utility sleds are mounting them on top of their cargo boxes.  Some say they mount in the lid of the cargo boxes (underneath facing up) and it works through the lid.   Standby plan which gives you 500 kbs (pretty slow) is $10 cdn a month.  That will run the navigation on your phone, wifi calling, texting and slow e-mail.  They also say it doesn’t run great on the sleds 12v source.  You can run it off Milwaukee 18v batteries or install a voltage regulator that pumps the 12v up to 18v and makes the voltage consistent.  With standby mode you have to be stationary for it to work.  If you pay for a roam plan then you get fast internet anywhere even while moving (not something you really need riding).  It has me looking at it to use on standby for emergency contact only.  A little clunkier hardware wise, but other than that it’s better in all other aspects.   I find the satellite on the I- phone isn’t great.  Especially if you’re in an area with marginal reception.  It will fight to connect to the cell tower, but won’t work because of the crappy connection.  Because this is occurring it won’t grab the satellites to get a message out that way.

The application for this system is  pretty damn good!

Other option you can consider is Starlink mini.  All you need is 12Vdc to power it.  Setup a wifi connection and then use wifi calling on your cell phone to call out.    You have everything (phone, texting, internet, etc).  Works just about anywhere.