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Originally Posted by Skipper of the Sea Que
There is no cell phone locator system in place around the Lake.
By the way, kayakers and others who get real wet while boating, most cell phones do not like water.
Even if/when there is cell phone coverage, cell service is not always available and calls do get dropped and lost.
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Regarding the above statements:
* The entire state, I believe, and if not the whole state at least most of it, has E911 locator capability. Most cell phones sold in the past few years even allow you to choose to have location on for anyone to find you or for only emergency (E911) location. Whether or not you choose to keep either or both on is up to you.
* Kayakers have for a long time now kept their cell phones in little waterproof and floatable containers attached to their person. At first we just hooked them to us, but now life jackets come with nice snug little covered pockets meant to hold your waterproof cell phone container containing your cell phone. I bought a new life jacket about 3 years ago and even that had one. I haven't seen a paddling jacket lately that doesn't have one of these.
* The final statement above, "...cell service is not always available and calls do get dropped and lost," is just one more
great reason to get the towers! Let's fix the problem in the best possible way! What's wrong with having this
in addition to your marine radios if you chose to have one and why not create the best possible odds for the cell phones to work when they are needed?
I guess I'm not really understanding why everyone is trying find workarounds or objections. No one is saying
not to have marine radios if you want them; we're just saying why not make today's most common communication method as
available as possible?
Sigh.....
