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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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   An emergency locator beacon is a radio beacon, a portable battery powered radio transmitter, used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress and in need of immediate rescue. Various types of emergency locator beacons are carried by aircraft, ships, vehicles, hikers and cross-country skiers.

4. Avalanche rescue - Wikipedia

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   Avalanche cords were popular before beacons became available, and while cords were thought to be effective markers there was never any proof of their effectiveness. In the 1970s Melchior Schild of the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) reviewed 30 years of Swiss avalanche accidents and rescues from 1944/45 to 1973/74.

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. 4 skiers killed, 4 injured by Utah avalanche, police say

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   An avalanche killed four skiers and injured four others Saturday in a popular recreation area, making it one of the deadliest avalanches in Utah history, authorities said. The Unified Police ...

7. ‘In shock’: None hurt as another avalanche hits Palisades ...

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   The KT-22 Express ski lift is empty after an avalanche at Palisades Tahoe on Thursday, a day after a deadly avalanche buried multiple people and killed a 66-year-old man.

8. 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.

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