Jedidad
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Something I haven't seen mentioned (but I did not read every single post) is an emergency locator system like the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker.
http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=100
You get into an emergency situation out in the boonies and this unit will use satellite to contact rescue.
Here's a blurb from their website:
"Once activated, SPOT will acquire its exact coordinates from the GPS network, and send that location along with a distress message to the GEOS International Emergency Response Center every five minutes until cancelled or until the batteries are depleted. The Emergency Response Center notifies the appropriate emergency responders based on your GPS location and personal information – which may include local police, highway patrol, the Coast Guard, our country’s embassy or consulate, or other emergency search and rescue teams – as well as notifying your emergency contacts about the receipt of a distress signal."
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HARLYGL94
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Jedidad wrote:Something I haven't seen mentioned (but I did not read every single post) is an emergency locator system like the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker.
http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=100
You get into an emergency situation out in the boonies and this unit will use satellite to contact rescue.
Here's a blurb from their website:
"Once activated, SPOT will acquire its exact coordinates from the GPS network, and send that location along with a distress message to the GEOS International Emergency Response Center every five minutes until cancelled or until the batteries are depleted. The Emergency Response Center notifies the appropriate emergency responders based on your GPS location and personal information – which may include local police,
highway patrol, the Coast Guard, our country’s embassy or consulate, or other emergency search and rescue teams – as well as notifying your emergency contacts about the receipt of a distress signal."
Doesn't a cell phone do the same thing? I have heard of people being rescued with a cell even if they cannot get service
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bcbouy
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i must have my hammock,cold beer,small folding table and an e reader
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rehoppe
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HARLYGL94 wrote:Jedidad wrote:Something I haven't seen mentioned (but I did not read every single post) is an emergency locator system like the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker.
http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=100
You get into an emergency situation out in the boonies and this unit will use satellite to contact rescue.
Here's a blurb from their website:
"Once activated, SPOT will acquire its exact coordinates from the GPS network, and send that location along with a distress message to the GEOS International Emergency Response Center every five minutes until cancelled or until the batteries are depleted. The Emergency Response Center notifies the appropriate emergency responders based on your GPS location and personal information – which may include local police,
highway patrol, the Coast Guard, our country’s embassy or consulate, or other emergency search and rescue teams – as well as notifying your emergency contacts about the receipt of a distress signal."
Doesn't a cell phone do the same thing? I have heard of people being rescued with a cell even if they cannot get service
I'm not sure that your response is applicable (out here in Colorado), anyway. Many places out here, you can't even get your phone to give you the time. (Of Day, even). lol
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PRodacy
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rockhillmanor wrote:pondputz wrote:I never leave home without:
400 watts solar
wind charger
solar lights
whiskey
steaks
BBQ
memory foam mattress
chainsaw
aircard - computer - camera
comfortable chairsPutz
Ok, I'll bite. What's the chainsaw for? ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/scratchead.gif "scratchead")
I don't know about others, but where we go, there Re often trees across the road that we need to cut to move them out if the way. Same on the way out - without a chainsaw we come be trapped. Many of the trees are 18 to 24 inches in diameter and a bow saw is generally way too small.
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Tvov wrote:Coffee percolator! Coffee tastes BEST when made in a percolator while camping...
Percolator coffee is great, but I prefer boiling water in an old aluminum coffee pot over the campfire and pouring it into my old style dripolator. It makes coffee similar to the modern coffee makers but done around a campfire without electricity.
![[image]](http://abe.midco.net/~barondeau1/Vettes/Van640s/dripolator.jpg)
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reed cundiff
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I believe MagillaGorilla has the basics expressed as succinctly as possible.
However, I would add vehicle and RV (or motorhome)
Reed and Elaine
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rehoppe
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reed cundiff wrote:I believe MagillaGorilla has the basics expressed as succinctly as possible.
However, I would add vehicle and RV (or motorhome)
Reed and Elaine
Yeah... that too! LMAO
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reed cundiff
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rehoppe
Otherwise, they would just be hanging out in the backyard.
Reed and Elaine
(among the semi-affluent homeless - as the census bureau apparently calls full time RV'ers)
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rehoppe
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Reed & Elaine
It's true, the 'Establishment' really doesn't respond well to the 'Migratory Masses'.
Smiles everyone..... We promise Not to be found sleeping under the bridge..... with any luck at all.
edit; Unless it starts to hail!
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