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Thread: Search and Rescue contacts for NZ - PLB and inReach or SPOT

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  1. 11-04-2021, 02:18 AM #4
    Moutere
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    An encoded PLB is the most effective "oh fuck" satellite comms tool for emergency rescue bar none.
    Great advice.
    Caution that some older 406 beacons aren’t all GPS encoded. They can potentially have a small margin of positional error that encoded units don’t.
    Last edited by Moutere; 11-04-2021 at 02:30 AM. Reason: Expansion
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