reading the HAM radio post i see that they now have hand-held
HAM radios..which is news too me..so why not just carry one
and if you fall on the portage--in my case--you can just start
shouting ..MAYDAY MAYDAY!!!!--i busted my leg--help--help!!
so on..look to be cheaper than a satellite phone or a PLB
that you can't talk to someone on...i saw a slide show a few years ago by a group that went by canoe to Hudson's bay..they
had a small shortwave radio that they used to contact there pick-up float plane
thru "trappers and pilots" ..i think they called it..