Send an InReach Message From the Alpha 200i

With an active inReach® subscription, you can send messages from the Alpha® 200i dog tracking handheld through the Iridium satellite network to your friends. 

Messages can be sent from the Alpha 200i handheld to your recipients in several ways:

• As an SMS text to a phone number or to a satellite phone¹

• To an email address

• Direct to another inReach activated handheld

• To the dedicated MapShare™ website for all viewers to see

Sending a Message from the Alpha 200i Handheld

1. From the main menu, select InReach.

2. Select Messages.

3. Select New Message. Message Threads will be listed here if there are any.

4. Select Type Message, Send Quick Text, or Send Location.

   • If selecting Type Message, select Message: to compose your message and select To: to input recipients.

5. Select the contacts the message will be sent to.

6. Once contacts have been selected return to the top and select Done.

   

7. Select Send Message.

¹ U.S. and Canada require a 1 and 10 digit phone number. Other regions require a +, a country code, and local number. The calling code for satellite phones will be either +8816 or +8817, which would then be followed by the eight-digit number of the satellite phone. Letters are not allowed.