[at-l] Meredith Emerson legacy

[David Addleton]

so it uses gps to locate position and then sends a radio beacon for
rescue people to home in on, *after* the estimated time of return
passes and somebody else calls and says they have a loved one in
trouble . . . so much for the "panic" button

I tho't it sent a distress signal to someone who would hear it, just
by pressing a button . . .

maybe I didn't read it right



On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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