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PLB - Personal Safety in the Bush
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<blockquote data-quote="Goldtalk Leonora" data-source="post: 473784" data-attributes="member: 5638"><p>...and I know I'm harping on.....but it's 43 outside and I've got aircon in here!!</p><p></p><p>Nightjars post about hf's is good...as long as your with your vehicle. Please remember that if you use a PLB someone should get to you</p><p>eventually...that may be a day or two? A PLB should not (in my opinion) be your primary or only method of communications in WA...you need reliable coms such as a sat phone or HF and some phone numbers to call in the area your in....yet another reason why getting along with the local pastoralist is a good thing if possible.</p><p>The key is to be as self sufficient as you can....you make break down for example....you call the nearest town and the locals there charge you a small fortune to come and recover you and your vehicle..ok..thats the price you pay in the bush sometimes....far better that than waiting for the local police to mobilise...you with little water and temps rising etc etc...nip potentially life threatning situations in the bud with reliable communications....and that's not the mobile phone either!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goldtalk Leonora, post: 473784, member: 5638"] ...and I know I'm harping on.....but it's 43 outside and I've got aircon in here!! Nightjars post about hf's is good...as long as your with your vehicle. Please remember that if you use a PLB someone should get to you eventually...that may be a day or two? A PLB should not (in my opinion) be your primary or only method of communications in WA...you need reliable coms such as a sat phone or HF and some phone numbers to call in the area your in....yet another reason why getting along with the local pastoralist is a good thing if possible. The key is to be as self sufficient as you can....you make break down for example....you call the nearest town and the locals there charge you a small fortune to come and recover you and your vehicle..ok..thats the price you pay in the bush sometimes....far better that than waiting for the local police to mobilise...you with little water and temps rising etc etc...nip potentially life threatning situations in the bud with reliable communications....and that's not the mobile phone either!! [/QUOTE]
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