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Default Men Overboard Retrival System - WAVEFINDER

The www.WAVEFINDER.ch is the first really efficient MOB retrieval
system available on the market for less than 2000 Euros.

This product has some new features making it really more efficient
than its competitors like SeaMarshall or VECTA2:

- operating range up to more than 10nm
- fully waterproof (beacon, antenna and display)
- small transmitter carried at the belt (less than 130 gr)
- no need to pay a license, it makes use of a free ISM band (869 MHz)

If you want more information, go on the web site, you will find a lot
more information and you will be able to download the complete user
manuals.

If you have other questions, feel free to contact , or
ask on the newsgroup.
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Wow....a single-function device for only $2200! Why so much?

A VHF DF is about $400, tops. A VHF walkie talkie is about $250 and
can be otherwise very useful. $2200 is a ripoff, even for the rich.

10nm is a LONG way for a low powered, 800 Mhz signal to make the trip.
For comparison, try to get 10nm from a 180' tall cellular phone tower
with a 200mw digital cellphone and make a call. The range in the BEST
conditions with NO obstructions (like conductive waves between the
transmitter and MOB) is about 2 miles. Isn't 10nm stretching things a
bit....like a factor of FIVE? How many watts does this transmitter
run? My line-of-sight calculations from a transmitter at arms length
above the ocean surface to a receiver above the ocean at 40' is about
2, maybe 3 miles at best. What's it reflect off to get 10nm?

Caveat Emptor buyers.....



On 25 Aug 2003 01:15:56 -0700, (Patrick) wrote:

The
www.WAVEFINDER.ch is the first really efficient MOB retrieval
system available on the market for less than 2000 Euros.

This product has some new features making it really more efficient
than its competitors like SeaMarshall or VECTA2:

- operating range up to more than 10nm
- fully waterproof (beacon, antenna and display)
- small transmitter carried at the belt (less than 130 gr)
- no need to pay a license, it makes use of a free ISM band (869 MHz)

If you want more information, go on the web site, you will find a lot
more information and you will be able to download the complete user
manuals.

If you have other questions, feel free to contact , or
ask on the newsgroup.



Larry W4CSC

Maybe we could get the power grid fixed if every politician
regulating the power companies wasn't on their payrolls.
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