No Cell Phone Service? Will Cb Radios Prove Better?

Many parks with remote areas require people to record their plans and timetable

, so search and rescue will know where and when to start searching. The same is true for boaters and pilots. Telling someone where you are going is always a good idea. It can still leave you in trouble.

Depending on the timetable, an early accident could leave you waiting for days for rescue. Much better would be the ability to call for help at any time. Some areas are inimical to life. Many places have environmental extremes to beware of. A car failure in the desert could find you without shelter from temperature extremes and lacking adequate food or water. A small injury, a simple car problem, a failure of a shoe. Even such little problems may become life-threatening, when you are out of contact.

Radios have been part of science and exploring expeditions since they became available. But for your personal expedition closer to home, isn't a cell phone enough?

A wildlife photographer needs to go where the wildlife are found. That is usually quite remote. Grant started by hiking alone with a big backpack to carry everything he needed. Then he met and married a hopeful writer. Instead of alone, they got a truck and set it up to be their base station and her writing studio. He would go out to take pictures and she would stay behind to write. They had their cell phones for staying in contact.

On the day he went out to look and wait for a picture and didn't come back, she found that they were out of reach of cell phone towers and she couldn't call him, he couldn't call her and neither of them could call for help. After waiting what seemed to be forever, she drove the truck to town and get help. Her husband was located and rescued, but the new wife decided to make sure it would never happen again.

Other people who needed to wander the wilderness told her that they had been using radios before, and during the cell phone times. To protect her husband the writer researched radio and decided to allow her hubby out of her sight if were carrying a handheld CB radio.

A mobile CB in the truck completed that contact circuit. She also decided that they would often be out of effective CB radio range from population centers, so she got a license for a 'Ham' and installed a 10 meter transceiver in the truck as well.

CB radio gave them traffic and weather information while traveling. Road conditions were important to them as they were often going on very marginal roads. The CB also gave her the security of knowing her husband was only a click of the mike away. While he was away, the 'ham' radio kept her in touch with the neighboring towns. Now, she didn't need to be anxious.

Cell phones were their plan for being in touch, but if there are no towers serving your cell phone carrier, then you are out of touch. For something to bet your life on out in the wild, and that is cost free, get a radio.

by:Tom Thors

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