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2. Avalanche transceiver - Wikipedia

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   The avalanche beacon is an active device powered by batteries; a ski suit may also contain a passive RECCO transponder sewn into the clothing. Early avalanche transceivers transmitted at 2.275 kHz. [2] In 1986, the international frequency standard of 457 kHz was adopted, and this remains the standard today. [3]

3. Emergency locator beacon - Wikipedia

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   Personal locator beacon for divers - sealed for immersion. MSLDs (Maritime Survivor Locating Devices) are man-overboard signalling devices, first standardized in 2016. [3] A Maritime Survivor Locator Device (MSLD) is a man-overboard locator beacon. In the U.S., rules were established in 2016 in 47 C.F.R. Part 95.

4. Avalanche rescue - Wikipedia

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   Avalanche Transceivers — known as beacons, "beepers", peeps (pieps), ARVAs (Appareil de Recherche de Victimes en Avalanche, in French), LVS (Lawinen-Verschütteten-Suchgerät, Swiss German), or various other trade names, are important for every member of the party. They emit a "beep" via 457 kHz radio signal in normal use, but may be switched ...

5. Skiers unable to save companion found buried in avalanche ...

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   The avalanche took place around 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, in an area known as the Playground east of Ohio Peak, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said. It caught and buried the backcountry ...

6. The avalanche risk is high in much of the western US. Here's ...

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   As a massive winter storm dumped snow across much of the western U.S., winter sport enthusiasts headed to ski resorts and backcountry slopes ahead of the long Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend.

7. Mountain Locator Unit - Wikipedia

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   A Mountain Locator Unit or MLU was a radio transmitter for use by mountain climbers as an emergency locator beacon when the wearer needs rescue.. The MLUs were simple radio beacons, and thus required search and rescuers to use traditional radio direction finding (RDF or DF) equipment to obtain a bearing, but not a precise location, to the beacon.

8. 4 found safe after avalanche at Nevada ski resort - AOL

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   The same severe storm system that's moving through California has caused an avalanche at a ski resort in southwestern Nevada, and "several people" are missing, according to Las Vegas police.

9. Backcountry.com - Wikipedia

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   Backcountry.com was founded in 1996 by Jim Holland and John Bresee.The two started the online business with a sparse collection of avalanche gear and began selling gear from their garage in Park City, Utah under the domain names BCstore.com and BackcountryStore.com. [1] The store's first sale, a Pieps 457 Opti-finder avalanche beacon, happened in February 1997. [2]