Personal Locator Beacon (PLB)?

[silasd]

I use the ACR PLB-375 ResQLink+ 406 Buoyant Personal Locator Beacon. You register it with NOAA and keep the registration current.

Amazon.com: ACR PLB-375 ResQLink+ 406 Buoyant Personal Locator Beacon : Electronics

Amazon.com: ACR PLB-375 ResQLink+ 406 Buoyant Personal Locator Beacon : Electronics

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Thanks, I'll check that out. I used one years ago when I sailed from CA to HI but never thought about them for hunting because it was pretty heavy.

 

[Catskill.Joe]

Thanks, I'll check that out. I used one years ago when I sailed from CA to HI but never thought about them for hunting because it was pretty heavy.

I haven't used the PLB yet but I use the InReach a lot when I hike the Catskills and the Gunks in NY. Cellphone reception is impossible in the Catskills, so I use the InReach for texting my wife.
For the PLB, I have seen someone after they fell during a rock climb and later died. It wasn't pretty. I wonder if faster emergency assistance would have saved her. I think of that when NYC'ers come to the Catskills and hike in flipflops or have zero water with them on a 6 hour hike in the middle of July (true story!). By having 2 emergency communicators, I can assistance with one, and communicate with another - or give one to a party in distress.

 

[silasd]

I haven't used the PLB yet but I use the InReach a lot when I hike the Catskills and the Gunks in NY. Cellphone reception is impossible in the Catskills, so I use the InReach for texting my wife.
For the PLB, I have seen someone after they fell during a rock climb and later died. It wasn't pretty. I wonder if faster emergency assistance would have saved her. I think of that when NYC'ers come to the Catskills and hike in flipflops or have zero water with them on a 6 hour hike in the middle of July (true story!). By having 2 emergency communicators, I can assistance with one, and communicate with another - or give one to a party in distress.

I'm all in favor of redundancy in personal safety gear!

 

[MT Bound]

I use a SPOT

 

[Cornbread]

If all of you get an EPIRB or PLB, make sure you register it on the Coast Guard's/Govt website. We had some doofus in our marina let his EPIRB go off in his unattended boat. The Coasties could only tell it was in our marina, not a specific boat. This happens a lot. So register it!!