Re: [Paddlewise] EPIRB vs PLB; with and without GPS

  Could you wear a helmet and mount the PLB on top of the helmet?
It would then be mostly out of the water and pointed upwards, as long as
you could tread water. I realize it might not look stylish, but maybe it
would work.

Bradford R. Crain

Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] EPIRB vs PLB; with and without GPS


> Jens wrote on 9 November 2009
>> anyone has a practical solution for the antenna problem.
>
> It seems to me (with no vestige of authority ;-), that EPIRBs and PLBs 
> must
> be expected - by their makers and by their certifying authorities - to be
> intended to be used very, very near to the surface of the sea.
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