repeaterepeater
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Hi all. I have a few Motorola XPR7550e (VHF) units with Radio Man Down entitlements. Just to mention, I have no other infrastructure other than the portables.
Spending time in the wilderness has it's risks and I'm trying to find reasonable ways to use modern technology to minimize these risks. As such, my goal is to see if there is a way to employ the features of the XPR7550e to transmit or even detect distress.
Imagine a group of backcountry skiers and a scenario where one member of the group is separated and suffers an injury. Whether manually activated by pressing the emergency button atop the unit, or by automatic detection via the Man Down settings, I want to see if the unit in possession of the party in distress can (a) initiate an intermittent audible alert to aide the others in discovering their location, (b) transmit an audible alert to the other radios in the group to draw their attention to the emergency condition, and (c) use GPS feature of the radio to transmit a text message to the other radios in the group indicating the victim's last known GPS coordinates.
This sounds like a pretty practical use case for anyone from outdoor excursion operators, to forestry professionals, to wildfire prevention teams, etc. There must be a way to do this!
Thanks in advance for considering and responding to my post. In case it is useful to know, I'm running CPS 16.0 (Build 828). In terms of my skill level, I've tinkered with the Man Down settings and understand enough to get it to initiate the alert tones when triggered. But I know very little about setting up a group of radios with individual IDs, anything to do with radio-to-radio data or messaging, etc. So...in terms of CPS, treat my as a novice (and go easy on me!) Thanks and Happy Holidays.
Spending time in the wilderness has it's risks and I'm trying to find reasonable ways to use modern technology to minimize these risks. As such, my goal is to see if there is a way to employ the features of the XPR7550e to transmit or even detect distress.
Imagine a group of backcountry skiers and a scenario where one member of the group is separated and suffers an injury. Whether manually activated by pressing the emergency button atop the unit, or by automatic detection via the Man Down settings, I want to see if the unit in possession of the party in distress can (a) initiate an intermittent audible alert to aide the others in discovering their location, (b) transmit an audible alert to the other radios in the group to draw their attention to the emergency condition, and (c) use GPS feature of the radio to transmit a text message to the other radios in the group indicating the victim's last known GPS coordinates.
This sounds like a pretty practical use case for anyone from outdoor excursion operators, to forestry professionals, to wildfire prevention teams, etc. There must be a way to do this!
Thanks in advance for considering and responding to my post. In case it is useful to know, I'm running CPS 16.0 (Build 828). In terms of my skill level, I've tinkered with the Man Down settings and understand enough to get it to initiate the alert tones when triggered. But I know very little about setting up a group of radios with individual IDs, anything to do with radio-to-radio data or messaging, etc. So...in terms of CPS, treat my as a novice (and go easy on me!) Thanks and Happy Holidays.