I haven't had any news lately on the LED headlamp topic.
Here is a new one that looks promising and built by a reputable
company - Underwater Kinetics.
http://www.uwkinetics.com/uploads/thumbnails/uploads/products/41f3cfad972e4f84b9868faa8e7bd2afc0c0341a_800x800.jpg
Note the large waterproof
Sorry Mike, I will not be able to attend as I will be in Denver at an OES
statewide meeting.
Wayne
mike_bi...@blm.gov writes:
This coming Saturday 9/25/2010 will be National Public Lands Day and for
Fort Stanton Cave we'll be doing some restoration work in the Lake Room
area. Any SWR
Paddled like hell for 2 days to get a snake-bit companion out
Not true. More like 14 hours - all night. We did not stop.
But it SEEMED like 2 days.
DiirtDoc
We have practical experience with the Iridium sat phone. It is a practical,
though expensive, solution to communicating with the rest of the world from
really remote areas.
Since our land on Taurus Mesas in South Brewster County is so remote, the only
telephone that will work
For emergency messaging, the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger might be the
best way to go. It's somewhat limited in the amount of info you can
communicate relative to a cell phone, but for $99/year (service only;
device costs an extra $170) you have a way to go hiking in the
wilderness by
I use Amateur Radio... Stranded with 2 flats along the 1/2 way point near the
Domingas Trail along the River Road in Big Bend National Park ...It was a
Spring break weekend in 2000 and not one vehicle drove by us... I used my Ham
Radio mobile set up ( 100 watts of 40 meters) to call for help to
Actually, you can do short-term rentals on real sat phones for much.
Allan
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 21, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Diana Tomchick diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu
wrote:
For emergency messaging, the SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger might be the best
way to go. It's somewhat limited
That happened to me once in BB, only I had tools. 7 flats blowouts!
Jeep Wagoneer. Tubes inside broken tubeless tires worked for short
distances. I cut up the worst blowout and made an inside-the-tire
patch to make the tubes work longer. Finally at Study Butte I bought
two of the best
Yes, theres a new sinkhole right here in Sabinas, it's located in the back
yard of the vacant house next door to mine
I climbed to the roof in my house to check on stuff and noticed someone had
begun digging an open water well checked with my
folks if they heard any activity in the neighboring
I left out the reason why I was I was posting the info on the phone.
ATT will initially be selling it to professional customers through
business channels,
but it will be in retail stores later this year, said Chris Hill, the
Dallas-based phone
company's vice president for Advanced Enterprise
I'm reading the book *The Map that Changed the World* by Simon Winchester
and therein is mentioned the book *Natural History of the Earth* (by John
Woodward in 1695) which revealed his fascination for 'speluncae, grottoes
and wells' and his unshakable belief that 'the circumstances of these things
Fritz -
Thanks for sharing the river experiences.
Look forward to meeting you. Bring Shiner. Madly getting ready to spend
October in the Chinese Karst - taking another group of mature cavers. That's
why we miss October Texican cavers getting together. October is by far the best
Below are 2 links for the 2011 Sierra hybrid and non-hybrid model for
comparison:
http://www.gmc.com/sierra/hybrid/specsEngine.jsp
http://www.gmc.com/sierra/denali/specsCapabilities.jsp
The buyer obviously sacrifices quite a bit for the little savings in gas.
The price of new trucks
I know a lot of cavers like products by Fenix.
They have a new headlamp. Cost is around $ 103 plus shipping.
http://www.fenixlight.com/viewnproduct.asp?id=76
It looks like a good product. I don't like the light pattern as they
show it on their web-site.
Since the battery pack holds 4 AA
Some people go to the wilderness to get away from things like this.
Here is an upcoming phone that will allow cavers in remote wilderness
areas in the U.S. to make an emergency phone call.
http://www.terrestar.com/retail.php
Do regular cell phones work now up at Three-mile Hill?
If someone
My iPhone works at Conrado Castillo.
Don's iPhone.
On Sep 21, 2010, at 11:02 AM, David dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:
Some people go to the wilderness to get away from things like this.
Here is an upcoming phone that will allow cavers in remote wilderness
areas in the U.S. to make an
http://www.iridium.com/ The Iridium 9555. Only $1800.00 or so.
TSep 21, 2010 11:03:08 AM, dlocklea...@gmail.com wrote:
Some people go to the wilderness to get away from things like this.Here is an upcoming phone that will allow cavers in remote wildernessareas in the U.S. to make an emergency
My iPhone worked from the top of Temple IV at Tikal, in the Petin, Guatemala.
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I've had a reliable signal sitting at the table inside the sheet-metal
enclosed Fieldhouse at Conrado Castillo. But you'll get a better
signal sitting in the outhouse. NexTel, TelMex, and MovieStar all have
signals up there now.
--Ediger
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:02 AM, David
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Topics (messages 16083 through 16102):
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16083 by: David
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Tropical Storm Karl report
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Re: Interesting results of WNS research
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