At 03:30 PM 2/06/04 +0930, you wrote:
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.
Ordinary mobile phones work only when they can talk to a mobile tower -
not much use if
At 03:59 PM 2/06/04 +1000, you wrote:
PLBs yes - Hand Held radios and mobile phones tend to be H²O
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
In a typical Beacon SAR mission a dedicated EMS/SAR helicopter is tasked.
These aircraft come with equipment that can Direction Find, and locate a
beacon almost as easily as following a highway once within range. VHF Line
of site is usually better than mobile phones. In many cases the people in
good citizenship. See
www.airsafety.com.au/why121p5.htm
Boyd Munro
AIR SAFETY AUSTRALIA
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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
inverte
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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
At 09:50 PM 31/05/04 +1000, you wrote:
This is the MT400 - the 406 replacement for the MT300.
These are built for the marine environment.
I am told they have plans for MT410 which will replace the
popular MT310 many of now carry.
SDF
Thanks for the activation data. The MT410 might be the
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
Mike Borgelt wrote:
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.
I am no expert on this, but at the time of the 5 ring circus in Sydney they
(Telstra) had a couple of
On 02/06/2004, at 1:33 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote:
Nobody answered about portable mobile phone base stations. Cath
Conway? Any
technical reason why not?
No technical reasons, but lots of political ones. In particular,
spectrum licensing regulations.
Even if you could put up a compelling safety case
Borgelt
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Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] ELT
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
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] ELT
The good news for us is that there is now a 406 MHz ELT available for
around
Lindquist
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This is the MT400 - the 406 replacement for the MT300.
These are built for the marine environment.
I am told they have plans for MT410 which will replace the
popular MT310 many of now carry.
SDF
] On Behalf Of Ian
Lindquist
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Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] ELT
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Mike's Question
How many 121.5 alerts a day occur in Australia?
I dont know the answer off the top
of my head, but I will
get the answer for you.
However the number will be far greater
than I
Mike's Question
How many 121.5 alerts a day occur in Australia?
I dont know the answer off the top
of my head, but I will
get the answer for you.
However the number will be far greater than
I expect many of you will
expect. Over 90% of activations are inadvertent
(usually
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skf1
To: 'Discussion of issues
relating to Soaring in Australia.'
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] ELT
Mike's
Question
How many 121.5 alerts a day occur
in Australia?
I dont know
Robert,
Distress beacon are known by many different names, and their names
indicate the environment they are designed for.
Basically
ELTs are aircraft beacons, are designed to be fitted to aircraft with G
switches (up to 3) and activate when the designed G forces are exceeded.
They
Further to my previous - the SAA report states that the ELT was picked up
by an Air Force satellite and they were able to confirm it was one
registered to Peter Masak. They were able to pinpoint its position to
within a couple of miles.
This information tells me it was one of the newer 406
At 11:29 PM 24/05/04 +1000, you wrote:
Robert,
Distress beacon are known by many different names, and their names
indicate the environment they are designed for.
Basically
ELTs are aircraft beacons, are designed to be fitted to aircraft with G
switches (up to 3) and activate when the
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