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PLBs yes - Hand Held radios and mobile phones tend to be H˛O adverse. It comes down to, what environment you are going into, how much money
you have to spend, and how much kit you can or are prepared to carry. If
your flush with cash one of the Globalstar satellite phones are the go –
GSM or CDMA that become a satellite phone then out of grand station coverage. I would also like to know about transportable mobile phone base
stations if there are such things. SDF -----Original Message----- 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 >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 |
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