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| ===== Rescue Electronics ===== | ===== Rescue Electronics ===== | ||
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| ===== Dan's adventure HX890 VHF radio question. ===== | ===== Dan's adventure HX890 VHF radio question. ===== | ||
| - | **Tom Fawell **12/12/22 #32865 | + | **Tom Fawell **12/12/22 #32865 |
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| If the radio falls in the water an emergency strobe light is automatically activated, even when the unit is turned off!!! The strobe can be reconfigured to flash on and off, flash SOS, or set to stay on continuously. | If the radio falls in the water an emergency strobe light is automatically activated, even when the unit is turned off!!! The strobe can be reconfigured to flash on and off, flash SOS, or set to stay on continuously. | ||
| - | I do a far amount or sea kayaking and wouldn’t want a light staying on (using battery power) if it got wet (say after a roll or a wave). Have you had an issue with this?\\ | + | I do a far amount or sea kayaking and wouldn’t want a light staying on (using battery power) if it got wet (say after a roll or a wave). Have you had an issue with this?\\ |
| Cheers,\\ | Cheers,\\ | ||
| Tom | Tom | ||
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| - | **Michael Peterson **12/12/22 #32866 | + | **Michael Peterson **12/12/22 #32866 |
| Stranger that follows this group, chiming in. | Stranger that follows this group, chiming in. | ||
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| - | **Paul Reavley **12/12/22 #32869 | + | **Paul Reavley **12/12/22 #32869 |
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| I got a heads up from Goodson in the gorge.\\ | I got a heads up from Goodson in the gorge.\\ | ||
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| - | Home Valley to Mitchell Point has some holes in coverage which often don't even let texts through.\\ | + | - Home Valley to Mitchell Point has some holes in coverage which often don't even let texts through. |
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| - | He didn't say which provider, but they mostly use the same towers ("Co-Locate). There's a teeny difference between formats for range, but usually 10 sq. miles per tower. Unless mountains. | + | |
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| - | Goodson also complemented me on "twitter for paddlers". Can we call it "Pitter"? "Twaddler"? "The best hope for free speech on the internet"…. uh, well. Maybe not that last one. | + | |
| - | **robcasey **12/15/22 #32916 | + | He didn't say which provider, but they mostly use the same towers ("Co-Locate). There's a teeny difference between formats for range, but usually 10 sq. miles per tower. Unless mountains. Goodson also complemented me on "twitter for paddlers". Can we call it "Pitter"? "Twaddler"? "The best hope for free speech on the internet"…. uh, well. Maybe not that last one. |
| - | Rocket flares require unscrewing a plastic cap which releases a metal chain. You pull the chain hard and it fires the flare (holding it away from your face).\\ | + | **robcasey** 12/15/22 #32916 Rocket flares require unscrewing a plastic cap which releases a metal chain. You pull the chain hard and it fires the flare (holding it away from your face). |
| - | I was involved on a rescue in Seattle years ago where I fired a flare and paramedics who couldn't find our beach location suddenly burst out of the bushes and found us at the West Point Lighthouse. Was for a capsized boater who had been in the water for an hour, we hauled him to shore calling EMT on our vhf. | + | |
| - | Another option but mainly for directing it a boat or a helo is the laser flare. But I think the rocket flares are more visible and when anyone sees one, they know something's wrong. [[https://www.paddlerssupply.com/brands/great-laser/|https://www.paddlerssupply.com/brands/great-laser/]] | + | I was involved on a rescue in Seattle years ago where I fired a flare and paramedics who couldn't find our beach location suddenly burst out of the bushes and found us at the West Point Lighthouse. Was for a capsized boater who had been in the water for an hour, we hauled him to shore calling EMT on our vhf. Another option but mainly for directing it a boat or a helo is the laser flare. But I think the rocket flares are more visible and when anyone sees one, they know something's wrong.** ** [[https://www.paddlerssupply.com/brands/great-laser/|https://www.paddlerssupply.com/brands/great-laser/]]** ** |
| - | **robcasey **12/15/22 #32918 | + | **robcasey** 12/15/22 #32918 |
| Teaching regularly in Deception Pass we've found phones don't work there due to the canyon walls including more open Bowman Bay. May be a Navy thing. Interestingly during last last year's DP Dash/Challenge the CG commander tried calling me on my phone after the race. I never got the message until we were leaving on Hwy 20 headed to Bastion Brewery. | Teaching regularly in Deception Pass we've found phones don't work there due to the canyon walls including more open Bowman Bay. May be a Navy thing. Interestingly during last last year's DP Dash/Challenge the CG commander tried calling me on my phone after the race. I never got the message until we were leaving on Hwy 20 headed to Bastion Brewery. | ||
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