Next message: Shaun Sweeney: "Re: lv-ab: Liveaboard on Pac coast"
>Actually, I intend to have a hand-held SSB in my raft kit. There is a
>company which manufactures a hand-held 3-ham-band (40-15-10 I think) that
>retails for about $700. Pack some solar cells and you're set for the
>duration. Your boat sinks - no worries, just inflate the tender, break out
>the fishing pole and solar still, and try for DXCC on the hand-held. Why
>bother radio-ing for help with all that DX and a perfect ground plane...
Before you put the SSB in your raft kit, I'd strongly suggest you get a 406
MHz EPIRB. Cost is about the same, it will bring in help anywhere in the
world. No need to monitor it, it's picked up by satelites and relayed. Be
sure to register it. That cost is $0.00.
Gene Gruender
Rainbow Chaser
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