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Date:         Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:10:51 -0800
Reply-To:     Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Fwd: OT-stranded in the wilderness with a westy what would
              you do ?
Comments: To: mordo <helmut.blong@gmail.com>
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RE: GPS and cell phones All cell phones and cell phone systems are now supposed to have GPS capability BUT all the GPS capable phones I have seen also have the option to turn the GPS signal off except for 911 calls. And a cell phone can only be tracked if it is turned on. But a cell phone only works if it has a connection to a cell antenna. In the case of the Kims they had no connection. But their phone did receive a text message and acknowledged that, refereed to as a 'ping' by those that hunted through records and found the record of that signal. That put the searchers in the right area. Prior to that the search was many miles away.


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