lots of good information..i'm going to have to do some web
searching to find out what a few of you are talking about..
FRS??--i don't even know what a "repeater" is--and no, i
did not know about hand held SW--i have seen the little
radios in the hunting catalogs but when i saw bigger and
more "real" SW on web sites i could see that alot has gone
right over my head in the past 25 years..i do have a SW
receive..a Hallicrafter S38 that i use to search around
stations with just for the hell of it..i have looked around
this site for something i could take when i go farther out
on my canoe trips..i use the BWCA in Minnesota and Quetico
park in Canada,but now that i'm retired i plan to get into
the big parks northwest of Lake Superior--Wabakimi and
Woodland Caribou in Ontario--much more remote and very
much larger..i could not depend on a scout troop or a
fishing party running across me if i needed help..
yes---the canoe trippers with the SW had a wire strung
between a couple paddles and the radio looked to be the
size of a bread loaf--the more i find out about PLB's
and such a Sat-phone seems the way to go.....thanks--