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Tag: communications

Online radio scanners

By Michael Coyle Posted on 06/07/2011 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with communications, SAR, technology

Radio scanners have been around for a long time. They basically allow people to listen in on radio conversations. Most radios have a scan function of some sort. When I got my first radio I could even use the scan …

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Why you shouldn’t use Smart Phones for Backcountry Navigation

By Michael Coyle Posted on 23/05/2011 Posted in Blog Entry, Essay Tagged with communications, gear, GPS, how-to, map, smart phone, technology
Why you shouldn’t use Smart Phones for Backcountry Navigation

Smart phones are problematic for backcountry navigation; they are fagile, have terrible battery life, and are less accurate than a wilderness GPS unit.

Cell phone locations

By Michael Coyle Posted on 27/09/2009 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with communications, GPS, map, SAR, technology
Cell phone locations

The SAR team has had a run of searches at inopportune times. The first one was after an all night search, so we rolled from the first search, into breakfast …

SMS and Search and Rescue

By Michael Coyle Posted on 02/07/2009 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with communications, mobile phone, SAR, SMS

Well it finally happend, and frankly I’m suprised that it toook this long. A pair of subjects we looked for all of last night and part of today initiated the search by sending an SMS (Text) message. I’m sure this …

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