W4UVV
Member
FYI Project Lifesaver International, in part, is designed to provide a faster SAR recovery time for individuals at risk from various medical or other valid reasons. Impacted individuals can be fitted as appropriate with 1 of 20 selected 218 mhz. frequencies on a low powered digital tracking device such as a wrist worn transmitter. Where project member supported, the appropriate Police Dept./Sheriff Officer would review the application, which most likely would involve an at risk family member.
If approved the PD/SO would issue a low power tracking device on 1 of 20 Project Lifesaver International licensed selected frequencies in the 218 mhz. range. The equipment is not cheap. Extracted from a post from the Newport News Sheriff Office on Google 2017(not word for word);.....for a SAR unit the cost of a receiver is $1,800; car and handheld antenna $264 each and headphones $49 each. For a client(user?) the total initial cost is approximately $650-700 plus an annual cost of $33.20. Prices listed may not reflect the most current costs.
There may be more PD/SO current Virginia project members but Google searches returned only the PDs or SOs for Chesapeake, Newport News, Portsmouth, Loudoun County and Bedford County. This SAR project appears to be a growing trend of standardizing SAR protocols and equipment which eventually could result in nationwide standardized SAR efforts.
Since Chesapeake is the first VA project member to be FCC licensed, it would seem each project member SAR unit also would have to apply for a separate FCC license. But there may be exceptions. But since the FCC would be losing money by doing that, I doubt it.
Here is the FCC link for the twenty 218 mhz. conventional low power digital frequencies licensed to Chesapeake which is listed as the control:
ULS License - Industrial/Business Pool, Conventional License - WRAM536 - PROJECT LIFESAVER INTERNATIONAL
Here is the Google link for more info on Project Lifesaver International:
Project Lifesaver (Home Safe)
John
W4UVV
If approved the PD/SO would issue a low power tracking device on 1 of 20 Project Lifesaver International licensed selected frequencies in the 218 mhz. range. The equipment is not cheap. Extracted from a post from the Newport News Sheriff Office on Google 2017(not word for word);.....for a SAR unit the cost of a receiver is $1,800; car and handheld antenna $264 each and headphones $49 each. For a client(user?) the total initial cost is approximately $650-700 plus an annual cost of $33.20. Prices listed may not reflect the most current costs.
There may be more PD/SO current Virginia project members but Google searches returned only the PDs or SOs for Chesapeake, Newport News, Portsmouth, Loudoun County and Bedford County. This SAR project appears to be a growing trend of standardizing SAR protocols and equipment which eventually could result in nationwide standardized SAR efforts.
Since Chesapeake is the first VA project member to be FCC licensed, it would seem each project member SAR unit also would have to apply for a separate FCC license. But there may be exceptions. But since the FCC would be losing money by doing that, I doubt it.
Here is the FCC link for the twenty 218 mhz. conventional low power digital frequencies licensed to Chesapeake which is listed as the control:
ULS License - Industrial/Business Pool, Conventional License - WRAM536 - PROJECT LIFESAVER INTERNATIONAL
Here is the Google link for more info on Project Lifesaver International:
Project Lifesaver (Home Safe)
John
W4UVV