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?
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