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So, you're saying he didn't have an Inreach, then..???This one last year was a little wild:
Remains of Idaho hunter missing for 53 years found by another hunter
Raymond Jones went missing while bow hunting in September 1968 and was never seen again. Another bow hunter found his remains last week near the city of Salmon.www.nbcnews.com
I'd avoid doing this, if you even can... pretty sure even if you change the SOS contact the national dispatch contractor still gets the call and responds, they send the call to the dispatch center in the county the call originated in, where it typically ends up in the hands of volunteer SAR, probably far faster than if you are relying on your friend to do it... and the dispatch center adds a code so responders can text the device sending the SOS, which your friend cannot... the national dispatch center does not deal directly with private contractors at all to my knowledge. if FFL or a private air contractor is getting contacted it is probably through local SAR because they decided that was a better asset to use...A note on the SOS beacons and heli/ambulance evacs and SAR in general. If you have the choice on your SPOT/InReach/communicator of choice (most newer models and account settings allow for this), I recommend having the SOS number set up as a local contact or family member. By default, often these will go to a national deployment team and then dispatched from there to dedicated companies where the heli has to get clearance to go get you. These teams (Lifeflight for example) are for profit and operate just like an ambulance or hospital. Be prepared to pay or have very very good insurance. If your local contact or family member reaches our to the local volunteer SAR, sometimes (not always) there are local private volunteer pilots that can help at little to no cost. That response time is usually much faster as well (take off clearance dependent).
Great callout and glad to have a different perspective chime in.I'd avoid doing this, if you even can... pretty sure even if you change the SOS contact the national dispatch contractor still gets the call and responds, they send the call to the dispatch center in the county the call originated in, where it typically ends up in the hands of volunteer SAR, probably far faster than if you are relying on your friend to do it... and the dispatch center adds a code so responders can text the device sending the SOS, which your friend cannot... the national dispatch center does not deal directly with private contractors at all to my knowledge. if FFL or a private air contractor is getting contacted it is probably through local SAR because they decided that was a better asset to use...
Speaking as a volunteer SAR tech who has had some unnecessarily epic rescues because people with an inreach thought they were being clever and texting a wife/girlfriend instead of pushing SOS and actually getting the rescue they needed, they ended up almost dying because the correct info was not making it to the SAR team in time for us to reach them, they ended up finally pushing the SOS and getting us an actual position late enough that they were nearly unreachable by the time we were able to locate them... in addition to endangering a bunch of SAR personnel looking for them...
Mine is always clipped to my shoulder strap. MR has a nice little spot for it to clip onto.There's about a 15% chance my InReach makes it into my pack on any given hunt. Need to work on that.