[MilCom] Civil Air Patrol Not Called To Help Kim Tragedy

[lrk]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 02:58:28PM +0000, sdaitch at mor.ibb.gov wrote:
> 
>    In  addition to the emphasis on the FRS angle of communications, maybe
>    for someone far more astute than I am on the technical aspects of cell
>    phones, is it possible for the search units to have and use a portable
>    master  base cell system that would emulate the cell network, but have
>    two-way contact with the cell phone?
> 
>    In the last mountain search, there were reports of sporadic cell phone
>    contact  from  one of the missing climbers, and it would seem possible
>    for the air rescue teams to have aircraft to cell phone communications
>    available that would "duplicate" the cell phone to system connectivity
>    wihtout actually hving the cell phone reach the cell network.

It is more of a human problem than a technical one. How do we teach people
to not think they can always just dial 911 on their cellphone when they
need help? Since they think that will work, they don't check the weather,
check the route they need to take, etc. They won't buy a radio and keep
good batteries in it.

There was one news report about the mountain search where a local guy
built radios for climbers to check out at the ranger station free. He
had a receiver and directional antenna in hand. He said 'if they had 
one of these, I WOULD find them'.

It is a matter of keeping safety in mind. People often don't.


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