[net.space] O'Niell's Locator

jayd@iwu1c.UUCP (01/31/84)

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	There was a question raised regarding the value of these locators.

	For sailors there is a device, commercially available, which
	when immersed in sea water, sends SOS on the channel which
	commercial airlines monitor.  This is supposed to provide
	a means of finding people whose boats have gotten in trouble
	far out at sea.  Not too many people have been rescued by
	means of these devices, which won't be discussed here, but
	the possibilities of O'Neills device here are optimistic.

	A previous article discussed, one of the uses O'Neill plans
	for the device which is an SOS button on the local box which
	would inform the authorities of the location of the person
	in trouble.  A fairly simple modification of the device to
	make it similar to the one described for boaters would make
	a device which should provide a better rescue mechanism than
	the other one.