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ELT's are a joke
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November 15th 03, 06:43 AM
ISoar
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Is a APRS (Automatic Postition Reporting System) enabled ham radio a
reasonable substitute?
Intro:
http://nwaprs.org/downloads/WhatIsAPRS.pdf
Way more info:
http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html
On 14 Nov 2003 11:49:19 -0800,
(Buck Wild) wrote:
I've said it before, though I haven't done an extensive web search on
it,
There's gotta be an elt available that sends one short burst with your
exact GPS location to a satalite, instead of having the boy scouts try
to hunt down an AM signal with a directional antenna, while the
ISoar