Fantastic story!
Miraculous rescue! Yesterday three teenage boys were found at sea outside New Zealand after drifting 50 days in a small boat. They managed to survive on rainwater, two coconuts and a seagull. We cannot help but wonder if they had had cell phones… Full article
Summary from IKAR 2010
IKAR 2010, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia. A sunny Slovakia welcomed us the first day of the conference and it was beautiful blue skies throughout the whole week. The arrangement was well organized with between 200 to 300 participants and around ten companies displaying their products in the showroom. It was a good decision to participate [...]
Integrity
A common question about HEPKIE is: “what about integrity?”. ”If one can catch all phones in an area, will that not be violating the integrity?”. Well, we have a few answers to that question, and it depends on the search method, but the short one is: “There is no integrity problem.” It is impossible for the rescue [...]
Big event coming up
The Hepkie team is preparing for the big event this fall, the IKAR-CISA congress. IKAR-CISA is an organisation working for the exchange of mountain rescue know-how. At the IKAR-CISA congress the actual mountain rescuers (summer and winter) come together. Last year it was held in Zermatt. It was a great experience. We had the opportunity [...]
Successful helicopter test
The helicopter search tests performed on April 30 in Östersund, Sweden, gave very positive results. Using our portable search unit we managed to find a telephone, carried by a man pretending to be lost in the forest, at a distance of 20 km. The search took approximately 15 minutes from starting up the helicopter to [...]
Helicopter test
We are planning to go up in a helicopter soon to do some real tests. We are very excited about this, and I will be back with more information. Please, stay tuned… So far all the tests have been performed on the ground. The results are very promising! During performance tests at long distances Fredrik [...]
Field trials started