The important other half of any emergency-locating system is what the emergency responders use to detect a crash and universally use in their vehicles to find the potential survivors in a very timely manner. For the pilot, having a system which helps finding your remains if you don't survive is not really important to you. Correction, isn't important to me. It appears the APRS relies on family-friends to be informed of each flight and to keep a time watch for you and/or eye on the internet url as you go along. This includes those multi-legs out of the local area. If you have an 'outlanding' they then are the cog in the wheel that notify emergency authorities and relay the url. Seems most of us can't expect family-friends to sit and monitor each flight on their pc. They usually have places to go and things to do. Waiting for them to get their hairs up when you aren't home for supper and check their pc is better than nothing but not the ultimate. If you're hurting out there, there can be more of a delay for help than you might assume. I personally don't have anyone I can regularly sit and monitor each of my flights. I need to be tapped into a system which alerts the emergency responders in the quickest manner that I have gone down along and provide the most precise location info. That would be the system contrived by the authorities which involve listeners on satellites, locator equipment in responders vehicles and teams of people sitting around monitoring the system. I've still got the orange frequency box in my aircraft but when I can afford it my money is going with the 406 system. (Just in case anyone is tallying) Tom
--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Dana Overall <bo12...@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Dana Overall <bo12...@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: KR> APRS To: kr...@mylist.net List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 4:49 AM This system has been used by the RV crowd for probably the last two years. There are very, very, very few places where the transmitted packets are not picked up. This, to me, along with the required ELT is the only way to go for several reasons, piece of mind for your family as you flew cross country, rescue and recovery along with it's just plain fun. The units can be home built or now, there are several companies who have plug and play portable units. Dana Overall 1999 & 2000 National KR Gathering host Richmond, KY i39 http://rvflying.tripod.com/blackmagic.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMi05-WU2D0#GU5U2spHI_4 http://rvflying.tripod.com do not archive > From: n5...@hiwaay.net > > Sam Buchanon wrote a Kitplanes article on this 2-3 years ago. The web > version of that is at http://fly.hiwaay.net/~sbuc/journal/tracker.htm . > > Mark Langford > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > website at http://www.N56ML.com > -------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft?s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
