Friday, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:04
Just do a search of the net for person missing in the outback and see how many hits come up, if each of those persons had a tracker they would not be missing.
My family are not my nurse maids, they are not instructed to
check as daily. If we go remote we send a message when we arrive at a
camp for the night if we remember to. If we are staying there a few days then we include details.
Some of our friends enjoy following our travels, they also know where we are and can meet up with us and visa versa if they happen to be travelling through the same area.
If they haven't heard from us or we haven't moved for a few days they were to suspect there is a problem then they can send us a text message asking if we are ok, same if they need to contact us urgently. We always have the Garmin on but hardly ever turn on the sat phone. If one is camped up and people aren't expecting you to be travelling daily and something was to happen then yes a tracker is of no advantage,
no one will come looking until they think there is a problem, but at least when someone does start worrying they know where to tell the authorities where to look!
Same other way around, if the authorities are trying to find you which happens when station staff etc report someone has gone missing or you are over due after filling in a log book somewhere.
We used to listen to the VKS scheds every day for messages etc, now we listen when we remember to as others can text us anytime they need to. We need a weather report we can get one straight away. We don't need a sat phone plan so we can keep the sat phone turned on, if someone needs to talk to us they can either send us a message to call them on the HF or Sat phone, we then just swap the SIM out of the mobile into the sat phone and call them, yes rates are expensive but we haven't needed to us it yet.
But yes we do also carry a PLB, have never used it a suspect I never will.
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