No what I was thinking was more ‘keeping it in the family’ - so to speak - in that if you have taken all the time to carryout your pre-planning to include a Route Plan such as created in Memory Map (.mno file) in my case, this could reside on the Website along with your Alert. If it should be required it’s there and possibly linking into the Mapping Project if you convert it to the common .gpx format.
I know the SMT are busy with lots of more pressing items, but as I said it’s just food for thought and indeed Rob DM1CM might be able to ‘nest’ this with the SMP?, but like the SMT he’s busy with the excellent improvements to the Project.
20 - 40 min of walking every day should keep the back muscles in shape with some other benefits to the general health. The walking is in addition to what ever other sports you are doing - like SOTA activation in this case. Just need to organize the daily life in such a way that you can take the 20 - 40 minutes from the 24 hours for walking.
Thanks Jaakko. I normally do 15mins intensive rowing every morning as well as my SOTA activities. That has stopped until things are better. I have some stretching exercises I am doint which make an amazing difference to how I feel. The state today compared to 7 days ago is again a vast improvement. I’ll be doing the stretching and slowly start with some local walking as I get better.
I was in a UK MR team for about ten years (Before Children and a a change of Job made call-outs impossible). What was interesting is that either the casulties were very generous raising money for the team, or almost pretended that their rescue didn’t happen! I must admit that money raised made the job easier with kit that was (a bit like SOTA) lighter and more effective. Most MR members were enthusiastic walkers and climbers who did their bit for other people and (Like SOTA) liked to spend their time on a mountainside but carrying a stretcher and oxygen rather than a rig and a mast!
In the States here I’ve have great success using GMRS (462 Mhz 5W) radio to keep in touch with the wife when out of mobile phone range, either simplex to campsite or via repeater back to home, or even ham operator relay to GMRS repeater to home. Helps that we have a great repeater and many dual licensed ops in my general activating area. I know in Europe this wouldn’t be as practical with PMR or CB, but here, with XYL who will likely never become amateur, it is perfect.
