You are right, the article is quite short. Thats fine but one piece of data is a MUST.

I listen to the dispatchers 10 hours a day. When it involves a GPS, there is ALWAYS one major problem.

The owner of the GPS has not set the units to -

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If the lost/injured hunters attempts to transmit his location in degrees, minutes, seconds and 10th of a second, HE has created the problem. The listening dispatcher may not understand the terms. The retransmitted version by the dispatcher may not be understood by the untrained officers. The chopper will not be given the correct location. Rescue will be delayed.

If the UNITS on your GPS are set to degrees and decimal degrees, the screen will come up N 43.96633 W 116.18937.

Practice reading this correctly –

My location is -
NORTH Forty three point nine six six three three
WEST One one six point one eight nine three seven.

PLEASE REPEAT AND CONFIRM.