Strider wrote:Such a thing does not exist and I hope never does. The risk for failure is too great!
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if you were to replace your own battery and don't seal the unit up correctly afterwards, you dont have a waterproof beacon, even if you carry it in a watertight bag, what if you have to set it off in the rain? you have to expose it to deploy the aerial. waterproof bags arent full proof anyway. you're supposed to have a beacon in easy reach at all times which means you shoudnt really be stowing it away i a bag anyway.
i think manufacurers don't want that scenario happening and being blamed for life and death situations turning out badly..
if you really insist on user replaceable batteries, satellite tracking devices like inreach, spot and yellow bricks have an emergency signal function , but they have subscriptions you often have to pay, not sure if the emergency function works without the sub and i've read about spot devices being killed by water getting into them and they are claimed to be waterproof.
the tracking devices arent always as good at satellite aquisition either. i've read about devices taking hours to get a satellite signal, it just says emergency beacon in the article but makes me wonder if they are talking about satellite tracking devices that dont all have geostationary satellites to connect to and they are waiting for the satellite to pass over in the right orbit to get an effective connection
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