Do I need an emergency comm. device? SPOT? PLB? Nothing?

Submitted: Saturday, Mar 09, 2013 at 23:33
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We're planning a three month roadtrip from Adelaide -> Sydney -> Townsville -> Tennants Creek -> Alice/Uluru -> Coober Pedy -> Adelaide in a car plus camper trailer. We have three young kids, and wondered if we needed some means of getting help in an emergency. We will have a Telstra Next-G phone with us, and we've checked the coverage maps for that. We don't intend to stray far off the highway when we're in the more remote areas - just enough to find a campsite really. We'll be travelling starting now, hitting the remote areas in late May / early June.

How often is traffic likely to be passing us if we needed assistance and were out of mobile coverage?

Would it be wise to have a SPOT or similar device, or are they really for people who are going truly into the outback/bush, not us highway-goers?

We get the impression that assistance doesn't come that quickly with a SPOT or PLB anyway, so is it really worth it?

TIA.
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