Messages posted by : ir12daveor
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I've just read this thread with interest and felt compelled to register to give my two pence.
I have used many of the modern avalanche transceivers for search practice, my own transceiver is the Pieps DSP which is "supposed" to be one of the ones that is effected by mobile phones the most! In various test settings I have never gotten a ghost signal because of the phone! I have purposely tried to get the phone to interfere with the device and have been unable to do it! I can think of one very good reason to leave your phone on when in the back country. If someone is buried the first thing you want to do is call help. The quicker you can get a helicopter in there the better. If your phone is already on then if it has signal there is no pfaffing around trying to turn it on, put in your pin code and wait for a signal. If its on you see immediately if you have coverage or not, if not you know someone has to go somewhere to get coverage while the other group members search. Its simply time saving in an emergency if the phone is switched on. Recently (3 weeks ago) I was involved in a fairly large search after an avalanche came down near where I was riding. Myself and 3 other members of my group searched with two mountain guides. One of the mountain guides was on the phone with the emergency services during the whole time we were searching, which was in excess of one hour! |
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