Yes, but it does require subscribing to a service—not hugely expensive, but
still a couple of hundred EUR per year.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 10 Nov 2017, at 07:38, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There is, John: https://www.findmespot.eu/en/index.php?cid=100
> <https://www.findmespot.eu/en/index.php?cid=100>
>
> Good idea, Dean, and thanks for that recommendation.
>
> Chris
>
>> On 9 Nov 17, at 20:25, John Duggan <john.duggan10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Dean, a very informative and sensible post. I will certainly see if such a
>> system exists in the UK.
>> Regards John Duggan
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 9 Nov 2017, at 15:39, Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mile Lazzari posted about a Search and Rescue mission that had a bad
>>> ending. Every time I read about one of these tragedies I'm reminded of a
>>> story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune a few years ago after two women who
>>> became lost, and died, at Craters of the Moon NP. Fatal outcomes like this
>>> are so unnecessary--this is the 21st century, and there are hundreds of
>>> satellites orbiting the earth, and the appropriate satellites are easily
>>> accessed by an inexpensive (under $100) satellite messenger unit. I have
>>> one made by SPOT LLC (www.findmespot.com/en/), and I have it with me
>>> whenever I'm out in the wilds alone. Turn it on, press a button, and an
>>> "I'm safe" message is sent as an email to my wife and two daughters, with
>>> my GPS coordinates and location on Google Earth as a link. This October my
>>> wife and I hiked to the highest point in Minnesota, and I let our kids know
>>> where we were. See (click on satellite image and zoom in): <
>>> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=47.97470,-
>>> 89.75928&ll=47.97470,-89.75928&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1
>>> <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=47.97470,-89.75928&ll=47.97470,-89.75928&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1>>.
>>> I'm standing just north of the base of a fire tower. The marker of my
>>> location on the link is within 15', or less, of where I remember standing
>>> when I pressed that "check in" button. But if I had been alone, and had
>>> fallen and broken a leg, and needed help desperately, I could have pushed
>>> the "SOS" button and had my location sent to the "GEOS International
>>> Emergency Response Coordination Center [which would provide my] GPS
>>> coordinates and information to local response teams."
>>> I'm out in the wilds a good deal, usually alone, and this SPOT
>>> satellite messenger is on my belt constantly. Like seat belts and air bags
>>> in ones car, the hope is that it will never be needed. But if it is, its
>>> accuracy in pinpointing the user's location is amazing. Consider getting
>>> one if you're out in the great outdoors, hiking, photographing, hunting,
>>> whatever. The young hiker Mike mentioned could well have been found alive
>>> if he had had one of these inexpensive units.
>>> Dean
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