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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Suave on April 09, 2007, 05:09:09 AM
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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
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Most people don't know what Morse-code is today, that alone how to use it.
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...---...
Frank
"ooooh look, a rescue helicopter.. yayyyyyy!!!"
Jimmy
"yayyy for you, because i was getting hungry."
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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.
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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)
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Or you could bring a satphone.
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or you could bring a map & not get lost
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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
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Don't think I'd rely on a GPS unit in the Jungle
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OMG!!!
Stay in side. Don't go out there! It's dangerous and things can hurt you.:O
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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.
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Doesn't an EPIRB cost like $1,000?
And can't use it for routine communications.
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just use a "tom tom", tom tom, where is the nearest native village?
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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??:rolleyes:
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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?
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Originally posted by Xargos
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?
too many can't tell you east from west at 3pm on a sunny day :)
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Originally posted by Airscrew
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??:rolleyes:
Obviously so that they could communicate their position.
Of course one can't do that without commo.
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The "QRP" morse code radio could be a good option, PROVIDED that the user was LICENSED to operate it in their country.
Morse (or "CW") can be used at low power levels (2-5 watts) with a wire dipole antenna and get decent daytime results, on say 7.050 mHz out to four or five hundred miles, and night time results of thousands of miles under good atmospheric conditions.
I am licenced to operate that radio, and if I were a avid hiker, would take a solar rechargable battery and that rig with me.
The total weight would be less than say 7 pounds.
Not bad insurance if you get turned around in a canyon or two and find yourself low on food and water.
Sat phones are expensive, cell phones can be unreliable in wilderness areas.
Morse code cuts through the clutter and saves lives.
Read here: http://www.arrl.org
68ROX
K5TEN, ex-KA9SOX, ex-KA9SOX/VE1, ex-KA9SOX/VE3, ex-KA0NIU
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Originally posted by Airscrew
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??:rolleyes:
I second that.
In Grand Caucasus my friends once had to smoke used tea (they had to dry it in the sun after brewing it) when they ran out of cigarettes, wrapping it into pieces torn off the map - from places they already passed. You can't wrap tobacco into GPS reciever :)
Anything that has batteries may become useless. Drop a GPS or a sat-phone into the water - and that's all. A liguid-filled compass will work until you'll deliberately hit it with an axe. I still have an East-German compass with a 5-degree scale that was made before I was born.