I used the BAT tracker at Louisville last year and Mont-Tremblant this year. It worked great both times. Some friends had issues last year, but I think everyone's worked fine at MT. With that said, my wife said the new Ironman tracker app was actually more useful as it gave her projected arrival times that were pretty accurate. She ended up not using BAT much except to verify where I was occasionally.

Just found this thread and it is exactly what I was looking for. Went to bat.live and they are sold out for Florida - DOH! Are there any other alternatives or does anyone have any contact info for Beacon that I might be able to talk to?

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Beacon is solid! Very easy to use, easy to carry and your family can track you via gps realtime on the race course.

That's funny-- I literally came here this morning to ask the same question, but about the Quarq Qollector. It doesn't look like BAT is available at any of the events I'm planning for 2018 so I was toying with the idea of the Collector, but at $400, it costs more than the EPIRB I carry in my airplane so I was hoping to find a less expensive alternative.

Message them through their Facebook page.

I used BAT last year at IMChoo. It worked pretty well. Definitely helped ease the minds of my family as to where I was. The new IM tracker, while fairly nice and user friendly, is just a guesstimate based on the timing mats. It may say that you will be at Mile 10 of the run in 5 mins, but it has no way to know if you have slowed down or even stopped.