At 01:26 PM 2/06/04 +1000, you wrote: >Mike -correct or other interesting twists - for example; > >Recently a crew of a boat in northern Australia were turned over by >one of those rouge waves we hear about. The crew evacuated taking their >EPIRB with them and tying it to the now inverted hull of their boat. > >Problem - the boat sank, taking their EPIRB with it. > >Fortunately they had had the distress beacon on long enough for SAR action >to be underway, and they were saved. Some of you may even remember the >incident, the media reported they were saved by their esky lid. > >SDF
That sounds like a good argument for personal beacons. A good handheld radio too. Nobody answered about portable mobile phone base stations. Cath Conway? Any technical reason why not? I can imagine rescue situations where this would be very useful. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 Int'l + 61 429 355784 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.borgeltinstruments.com _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring