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Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:04 am
by LeeDavis
Since I know you guys are losing sleep over me going into the backcounty alone on my dual sport I purchased a personal locator beacon, the ACR ResQlink. https://www.acrartex.com/products/catal ... qlink-plb/

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It's similar to SPOT but also different. The ResQlink has a more powerful beacon that uses the international SARSAT search and rescue system, run by NOAA in the US. http://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/ Other differences are that it only gets turned on for emergency - no friends following your location via the internet - and in addition to sending GPS coordinates to the satellites it broadcasts a homing signal for rescue to follow. It also doesn't require a paid subscription - you register the device online with NOAA and that's it.

Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 5:51 pm
by Brick
Darn I wanted to follow you! [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH AND TIGHTLY-CLOSED EYES]


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Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 7:02 pm
by LeeDavis
Brick wrote:Darn I wanted to follow you!


I feel your pain.

Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 7:44 pm
by Bob
So its single use, then replace at no charge? Not a bad deal.

Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:35 pm
by LeeDavis
Bob wrote:So its single use, then replace at no charge? Not a bad deal.


Assuming I survive.

Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 9:41 pm
by Brick
What? Single use??? Really??


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Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:26 pm
by LeeDavis
Brick wrote:What? Single use??? Really??


How often do you think a person would typically need to be rescued?

Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 2:57 pm
by Brick
Well... who is it we are talking about anyway?
LMFAO!!!! [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY][FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY][FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY]


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Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:12 pm
by Bob
LeeDavis wrote: How often do you think a person would typically need to be rescued?


Mmmmm....once a week maybe? <poke>

Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:13 pm
by OldButNotDead
This gismo looks good to me. If you do some searching on SPOT you may find that there are some very unsatisfied folks out there who had SPOT fail on them when they were in deep do do.
To state the obvious though, don't go riding alone in Bum b-l-a-n-k Egypt.

Re: Personal Locator Beacon

Unread postPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 3:25 am
by Brick
Both depend on you being able to activate them in the emergency. However with SPOT used as I used it which was ON and leaving a track that could be followed even if I couldn't activate the 911 feature I could be found. Not so the Personal Locator Beacon.



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