This article discusses an apparent increase in inadvertent triggering of PLB's, resulting in wasted activity by SAR folks. How prevalent is this?
https://www.wildsnow.com/2323/plb-rescue-beacon-acr/I stumbled onto this by searching for information on the number/percentage of SAR ops initiated by triggering a PLB. That would be nice to know as well.
My impression, unrestrained by any semblance of valid data or statistics, is that the cell phone probably gets most operations started. Comments?