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Are there any companies that offer something like a GPS SOS beacon? I'm going to be living alone on my property in the middle of nowhere Alabama for a few months, and if I do something like break my leg I'm fucked. There's no cell service at all.
How would you get help in the wilderness?
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>>821478
Satelite phone?
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>>821478
you could try out this company
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I don't remember the brand, but search for satellite beacons. It's what I've used a couple times. They call down a helichopter on your location, so it might be a bit overkill, but there is such a thing
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>>821478
I carry this.
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>>821478
In NZ its practically mandatory to carry an EPERB beacon when you go /out/. Even hikers if they arent on the really busy trails carry them. If you cant afford one, most hunting/gear stores lease them.
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>>821869
can confirm.
especially down south, not much cell reception there. I was in hillary trail and even there, only at the trig point. I had offline maps app though, that helped heaps when we got lost taking a "shortcut", was pretty accurate but that depends on weather conditions so not the best option obvs. so OP I defs recommend offline map apps (for iPhone in my experience) for navigation.
as for OP >>821478
http://www.findmespot.com/international/
thats >>821485 this one
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>>821478
Who is this guy? I keep seeing him more and more lately. I think he's had gifs floating around for awhile.
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>>822253
Koksol Baba, General of the Turkish Special Forces
Half man, half roach, all Turkish
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Delorme inReach
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>>822333
kek-firmed
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>>822457
>fucking track runner pro in the background gets me every time, turns it full blown ylyl
ready, set, GO!
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>>821862
LOL thats for sking. Nothing like a SPOT or INREACH
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>>822642
Primarily bought it for snowmobile use. Carry it on the moto too... really, anytime i'm /out/ innawoods. Doesn't add significant weight to my pack, and it's tough enough to survive being strapped to the outside so I'm not giving up space internally.
SPOT/InReach aren't "bad" devices, just have a lot of features I really didn't care for and cost more per year than I really cared to spend for those services I don't want.
Plus, SPOT/InReach are another set of batteries I have to deal with. (Radio, camera(s), phone, GPS, flashlights...)
PLB's a 5-year maintenance-free battery.
If you've got family or whatever that wants to track your progress, or you want the ability to send messages where you don't have phone coverage, they fill that niche well.
Local avalanche forecasters use the InReach devices to get field obs back to headquarters.
They're called "PLB's" in terrestrial applications... In the marine world, they're known as EPIRB's; Aircraft nerds call them ELT's. That 406MHz system's tried-and-true, I trust it a lot more in an emergency than Globalstar/Iridium (I've used both, they're not that great).
PLB's 5-watts RF power, vs. the milliwatts that SPOT/InReach transmit at. Much better shot of getting that signal out with a PLB.
I hope I never have to use it though.
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>>821478
Why alone? I'd hang /out/ in bama for a few moths if we could shoot at cans and stuff.
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