Author Topic: If you're going long range, bring a radio (Read 507 times)

Suave · « **on:** April 09, 2007, 05:09:09 AM »

If you're going long range bring a radio. Seems like a no brainer right? I mean really.

http://www.yahoo.com/s/552431

Two trekkers lost in the jungle for seven weeks. One of the guys said they should've brought a satellite phone.... yeah, have fun with that. Doesn't anybody remember radios?

All they would've needed to bring is something like this.

http://kd1jv.qrpradio.com/ats3a/ATS3A.HTM

and maybe one of these

http://www.elecraft.com/T1/T1.htm

And some wire and a morse key and a gps unit. And a cheap solar charger or hand dynamo. International communication rig for less than $300 that runs on AAAs. Much cheaper, lighter and sustainable than a sat phone. Of course you'd need to know morse code and basic amature radio.

If you want to go on expedition, bring a radio man or just be one yourself.
Really

Xargos · « **Reply #1 on:** April 09, 2007, 05:29:04 AM »

Most people don't know what Morse-code is today, that alone how to use it.

Speed55 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 09, 2007, 09:49:34 AM »

...---...

Frank
"ooooh look, a rescue helicopter.. yayyyyyy!!!"

Jimmy
"yayyy for you, because i was getting hungry."

Reschke · « **Reply #3 on:** April 09, 2007, 09:53:20 AM »

Even better try to get one of the commercially available radios that are able to broadcast a rescue beacon along with GPS coordinates to one of the many satellites overhead that monitor those frequencies for mayday calls from aircraft and ships at sea.

john9001 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 09, 2007, 10:01:09 AM »

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Originally posted by Reschke
Even better try to get one of the commercially available radios that are able to broadcast a rescue beacon along with GPS coordinates to one of the many satellites overhead that monitor those frequencies for mayday calls from aircraft and ships at sea.

Emergency position indicating radiobeacons (EPIRBs)

rpm · « **Reply #5 on:** April 09, 2007, 11:30:44 AM »

Or you could bring a satphone.

texasmom · « **Reply #6 on:** April 09, 2007, 11:31:45 AM »

or you could bring a map & not get lost

jhookt · « **Reply #7 on:** April 09, 2007, 11:53:12 AM »

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Originally posted by texasmom
or you could bring a map & not get lost

following that logic i opt to stay home and watch planet earth on the discovery channel

Hawco · « **Reply #8 on:** April 09, 2007, 12:09:21 PM »

Don't think I'd rely on a GPS unit in the Jungle

Phaser11 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 09, 2007, 12:57:46 PM »

OMG!!!
Stay in side. Don't go out there! It's dangerous and things can hurt you.

Suave · « **Reply #10 on:** April 09, 2007, 01:02:15 PM »

Just think of how few episodes there would be of that Discovery channel show "I Shouldn't Be Alive" If they'd all brought radios.

Suave · « **Reply #11 on:** April 09, 2007, 01:07:50 PM »

Doesn't an EPIRB cost like $1,000?

And can't use it for routine communications.

john9001 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 09, 2007, 01:10:42 PM »

just use a "tom tom", tom tom, where is the nearest native village?

Airscrew · « **Reply #13 on:** April 09, 2007, 01:13:26 PM »

for crying out loud, they had a MAP and a COMPASS, and they still got lost. I dont think a GPSthingamajigywhatchamcallit would have saved them. If you cant read a map, and you cant use a compass what good would a GPS locator be??

Xargos · « **Reply #14 on:** April 09, 2007, 01:35:21 PM »

Most kids today don't know what direction the North Star is in, and you expect then to know how to read a compass and map?