Mountain Rescue

ocam · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 08, 2007 Posts: 46

The other day I spoke to a guy who's on the mountain rescue near Buxton. He tells me 30 members of the team are using Active 10s. I guess those boys don't talk about what they get up to, but wouldn't it be nice to hear about how it is used in difficult circumstances? The only time I've read about MR using it was a grumbling early adopter on Amazon and his comment stayed on there for ages.
Talking of which, it would be good if satisfied forum users wrote some positive feedback on Amazon, cos there's negative stuff on there which won't do any of us any good! The more business Satmap do, perhaps the quicker the updates that we want will come about?? I don't know.

Separately, I am delighted with v1.4, especially hibernate mode and the new POI icons. So exciting seeing improvements in the unit and without paying (much!) - it's been brilliant for walking in the fine weather. Satmap owe me a commission as well, cos I've had at least 4 people saying they're getting one now!! And the number of people I've helped out in the hills is ever increasing - plus a few times now, I've been coming in with more people than I set off with. Smile

Lastly, what does anyone think about the full user guide? Personally I think it's more of a reference manual and therefore something I avoid, but I briefly checked it out yesterday and it seems OK?

ian2u · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 24, 2008 Posts: 14

My main use has been on searches in farmland or forestry areas where you do field by field, gives useful record of what you have covered.

A touch screen where you could trace round the areas to be searched would be even better, but touch screens dont work so well in the conditions we work in.

With rescues you tend to have a load of people all starting from the same RV going to a known location so individual navigation not so critical so dont need SatMap. Ditto searches on open ground / moorland.

Impressed with the Active 10 after a year of use.

BigPerk · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:46 pm Post subject:

I've got a feeling satmapian has a technique for 'outlining' areas - you might like to check his posts in case it's something that would work with you.
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satmapian · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 14, 2009 Posts: 59

Doesn't ring any bells with me BigPerk. I just create and follow routes. Very Happy

BigPerk · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:14 pm Post subject:

Sorry, it was 4ndynorfolk Embarassed

ian2u · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 24, 2008 Posts: 14

We use one or more fields as search areas in rural areas so a vector map base would have been ideal. But with raster it really does has to be an overlay and a touch screen.

Different subject but it would also be very useful if the Li-pol battery was a module that just lifted out and you could put in 3 AA batteries instead if you had run out of power. Hard to remember to keep it charged up all the time instead of in your rucksack which you can just grap on a callout. It is a very Heath Robinson arrangement.

BigPerk · Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 3:09 pm Post subject:

Yes, and you will probably have seen in a separate thread that changing bettween Li-Pol and AAs soon b****rs up the wires and contacts, though it does seem that Satmap are realising the'HRness' of the arrangement and may be bringing something better out in the (not too distant?) future.

In the meantime, take care with switching batteries Rolling Eyes

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Bosun · Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:47 pm Post subject:

BigPerk · Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:47 pm Post subject:

Sorry Ian, I think I must have dozed off in front of Christmas telly and had a wishful dream - can't find what I was thinking of anywhere.
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donie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 02, 2010 Posts: 13

Any other MR folk using SatMaps?
New user from Ireland

jjb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 21, 2004 Posts: 13

The Cave Rescue Organisation which is also the MR team for the 3 Peaks area of the Yorkshire Dales, actively use Satmaps www.cro.org.uk

All cave entrances and underground to surface radio location points are stored as POI's in each unit (many hundred). All three CRO Land-rovers have Satmaps mounted in front of the passenger seat using "bike" mounts. These can then be easily viewed whilst on route to an incident, selecting access routes etc. as well as "slotted out" to go onto the fell. At times far easier but also no substitute for using old fashioned paper maps (laminated).

CRO would like to thank Satmap for the support that they have shown to the team. Especially by accommodating our specific requirements on SD cards during the recent version 1.4 upgrade.

Jon Beavan
Duty Controller CRO

planetnine · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:18 am Post subject:

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