[pct-l] Emergency Devices

[ned at mountaineducation.org]

Gary, 

The other thing you can do is, if you have a reliable contact person at home who is likely to be reached by sat phone at any time of day, leave the list of SAR units or Sheriff Departments along your route with him/her so they can call and take care of all the details for you. However, most SAR commanders will want to talk to you personally to "feel" from you the importance of your need, how you are doing, and where you need to move to (if you can) to facilitate your extraction. Thus, the sat phone with the Sheriff's numbers is the quickest for your own rescue or that of any one you come across along the trail.



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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Wright 
  To: Paul Robison 
  Cc: ned at mountaineducation.org ; pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:18 AM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] Emergency Devices




  On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Paul Robison wrote:


    in this case,

    a call is placed to the SPOT call center with your GPS coordinates, from there a human determines who to call,  police, SAR, coast guard, etc.  and will get to the right agency to help you.



  I was asking about sat phones, though.  I understand how PLBs and SPOT work, but they are designed from the ground up to be tied into the search and rescue infrastructure. A sat phone is a more general device though and I was wondering how it would work in an emergency situation (i.e. what are appropriate expectations and what preparations should occur beforehand to ensure it was useful in an emergency in the backcountry).


  Radar




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