Using voicemail to record location in emergency

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rareposter
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Re: Using voicemail to record location in emergency

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There's a similar thread on Singletrack about it as well including a debunk from Scottish Mountain Rescue who say to stop messing around with voicemail and just call 999 asking for Police then Mtn Rescue.

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topi ... ut-to-die/
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Re: Using voicemail to record location in emergency

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"Hiker lost on US mountain ignored calls from rescuers because he didn’t recognise the number"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... the-number

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Re: Using voicemail to record location in emergency

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Jdsk wrote: 24 Oct 2021, 10:17am
thirdcrank wrote: 24 Oct 2021, 10:04amI'm pretty sure that the technology exists for the exact location of a phone sending an emergency call to be pinpointed to the recipient.
The next generation of standards for emergency calls and advanced mobile location, from ETSI:
https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/press-rel ... 9538703283

includes:

As more than 70% of emergency calls come from a mobile phone in Europe, the Advanced Mobile Location (AML) technology is essential to provide the most accurate location of the caller. With AML the phone's location capabilities (making use of GNSS, WIFI and cellular network information) are activated when an emergency number is dialed. The location obtained is then sent to a location endpoint managed by, or on behalf of, a national emergency service. These technologies can provide a location precision as good as 5m outdoors (and averaging to within circular areas of ~25 m radius for indoor locations), a significant improvement on existing cell coverage provided by mobile networks, which average (across the UK as an example) circular areas of about 1,75 km radius.

Jonathan
I think it's meant to be current generation in Europe but a number of countries, including UK, have yet to fully implement it.
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Re: Using voicemail to record location in emergency

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thirdcrank wrote: 25 Oct 2021, 10:01am Depending on your location, you might try firing maroons to summon the RNLI
Blundering lost Maroons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons
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Re: Using voicemail to record location in emergency

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As far as the battery dying. Smart phones today, when put into super energy saving mode can last a full day with only one bar.
I wish it were as easy as riding a bike
rareposter
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Re: Using voicemail to record location in emergency

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MarcusT wrote: 28 Oct 2021, 5:50am As far as the battery dying. Smart phones today, when put into super energy saving mode can last a full day with only one bar.
Yes but check what functions actually remain - sometimes the extreme battery saving stuff turns off all connectivity meaning that any incoming calls go through to voicemail without it ringing. It certainly turns off all data.
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Re: Using voicemail to record location in emergency

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Maroon (Rocket.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon_%28rocket%29

I remember hearing something on the radio when the RNLI somewhere was going over to pagers to assemble the crew, partly, it was said because they were getting complaints about the noise if the lifeboat was launched at night. This was contrasted with the time when the whole place turned out to help with the launch and then waited, praying for a successful rescue
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