[at-l] Meredith Emerson legacy

[Jim Bullard]

It said they used GPS so I'd guess satellites. PLBs aren't new. They have
been around for at least a few years. There was a guy who was rescued in the
Adirondacks a few years back because he had a PLB. He got caught by a winter
storm and wasn't equipped to deal with the volume of snow that fell. He
turned on the PLB and they homed in on it with a chopper to rescue him.
There wasn't room for his gear so it got left. He went a week or two later
to get the gear and sent another distress signal. When they got to him he
said something like "you didn't think I was going carry all this stuff out
did you?". As I recall he got billed for the rescue. Unfortunately anything
beneficial thing you can invent will be abused by somebody.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:40 PM, David Addleton <dfaddleton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> using cell tech or satellite?
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > From the brief description it sounds like a personal locator beacon,
> > basically a generic distress signal that is trackable to the unit.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:58 PM, David Addleton <dfaddleton at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> does anybody know anything about the technology these panic buttons use?
> >>
> >> http://www.righttohikeinc.com/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/06/24/meredith_emerson_tribute.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13
> >>
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