Dave wrote:

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:35:14 -0500, "Bart Senior"
said:


Locating a cellular caller is hard to do. If you don't know
precisely where you are, the Coast Guard will have difficulty
finding your location on the water.

That seems strange since, from what I've read, the cellular companies can
locate each phone that's turned on pretty precisely.

It works pretty well in metropolitan areas where your phone can be
"seen" by three or more towers. Further away you may be in range of only
one tower and then the precision is pretty poor, "Well Mr. Coast Guard,
he's within a 15 mile radius of our tower at mile marker 122 on the
coast highway.".

Cheers
Marty