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From: Ed Kelly (no email)
Date: Mon Aug 02 1999 - 00:26:50 EDT
>...Personally, if my life was on
>the line I'd want all the power I could get, legal or otherwise.
>Norm
>S/V Bandersnatch
>Underway off the Georgia coast, northbound 6 Kts
The exchange between using 25 watts or 100 is interesting.
Usually the additional power at these frequencies only
controls the size of the zone you block out other transmitters
since the sets only lock on one signal at a time, and that
is the most powerful one.
If you think you would want an emergency radio that will
get you livesaving help WHEN ITS DOWN TO LIFE OR DEATH
then maybe that would be a hand held aviation radio.
Few areas in the world are out of sight of some commercial
aircraft. They monitor 121.5 as I understand it. If you
have a handheld aviation radio in your abandon ship bag
it could be the link that would save your life...
Its illegal as hell! but if its down to life and death,
the idea of prison time isn't that frightening to many.
This is not my idea -- and I don't carry a handheld -- but
I thought the suggestion novel when I heard it from a radio
expert at the Chicago Sail Only show in January this year.
If I were sinking in the mid atlantic (either with or without
a 406 EPIRB) I would sure think about getting on one and
seeking an accomodating pilot to relay any search info.
Just a thought.
Ed Kelly . Des Moines, Iowa
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