While it's not standard for terrestrial vehicles, EPIRB (*Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) *would be a good locator. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: TC <trclark@shaw.ca> Date: Dec 7, 2006 12:55 PM Subject: OT-stranded in the wilderness with a westy what would you do ? To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com I have been following that story of the SF family that got stranded in the Oregon coast mountains my son asked what we would do if our 2 wd westy got stuck/broke down in some remote winter area besides that fact we prolly have 2 weeks of food , propane, dual bats etc & some Garmin 2 way radios we would prolly just hole up & camp out :) The interesting aspect was that the attempt to make a cell phone call and the cdr records allowed the searchers to grid search a cell phone tower coverage grid this allowed them to be located if everyone has stayed put the story would have a happy ending ... I was curious the Garmin rino 530 i always have in the van is GPS enabled & allows other Garmin 2 ways to track to each other bu the coverage is only 2 miles in bad terrain Yet I can usually get a GPS fix as long as there is not much tree cover just about any remote locations.. Are there any inexpensive devices that would send a gps fix to international emergency satalite the allow searches to home in on sone lost / stranded in the westy wilderness ?
-- mordo 1990 Carat |
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