[AT] Satellite Tracking was Warning and apology.

Steve W. falcon at telenet.net
Sun Apr 6 09:43:26 PDT 2008


charlie hill wrote:
> Steve we have enhanced 911 in my county and I don't believe that will work 
> with any broadband UNLESS it's the DSL broadband that the phone company 
> provides.
> 
> You are right about calling 911with the cell phone but lots of us live in 
> areas that don't have seamless cell phone coverage.  The Spot device sends a 
> signal to a satelitte just like an EPIRB.  There was a story many years ago 
> when the EPIRBs first came on the market about a guy in road rally race in 
> Africa who went off the side of a hill into some heavy brush.  He was 
> severly injured and where he was located he would  probably never have been 
> found.  He had an EPIRB on the race truck.  It went off automatically.  I 
> don't remember the exact sequence but it was something like this.  A Russian 
> satelitte picked up the signal.  This was in the days of the cold war so the 
> Russians contacted Germany.  The Germans passed the message along through 
> several different countries until the guy was finally pinpointed by a and 
> pulled out by a rescue chopper.  The chopper knew precisely where he was 
> because of the locator beacon.
> 
> Charlie

The catch there is that the "enhanced" 911 systems usually enhance the 
information with things like your pistol permit status, any crimes or 
complaints and if you have any domestic problems. Might not be real bad 
to give up those "enhancements"

-- 
Steve Williams
Firefighter,EMT
VanHornesville Vol. Fire Dept



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