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I can leave my house, go into the National Forrest, and be out of cell and radio service in 20 minutes. After another 30 minutes of riding, it would take all day to walk back to civilization. I believe in belt and braces! Satellite AND GMRS seems to be the right combination to me as well. Ill be curious what the SAR folks say.

I was wondering the same thing. I’m a local in Wyoming and I just accidentally ran across this local “standard”. I was thinking it may be more effective to put up some posters in the outdoor motorsports rental company offices and maybe at the National Forest offices. I like the billboard idea though!

Thanks for looking up the post and linking to it here. Honestly, I found that topic after I posted mine, so I have a bit of Newbie embarrassment! I put this up post because I was encouraged by others in this forum to get in contact with my local SAR folks. I found them on Facebook and found that they have successfully used GMRS to assist in at least one rescue, and perhaps others as well. I would think that is good news, even with some of the faults of a 307 system. I’m traveling at the moment, but when I get home I was thinking about directly contacting the local sheriff’s office or SAR group to make sure that my equipment is properly set up and get some assurance that I’m properly prepared to spend time in the back country. My neighbor and his wife spent a night get in the cold last winter and he told us he was not properly prepared to communicate with SAR. Luckily the snow mobile rental company sent help when they were late coming back and there are some very talented rescuers nearby. I think he would have liked a flawed solution now rather than a perfect solution later. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I respect your experience and help.

Wyoming has a lot of outdoor recreation and the SAR teams have found GMRS to be quite helpful because most people use it for group communication anyway. In case of an emergency, SAR teams can contact the victims on GMRS. Wyoming has a big push to publicize standardization of 307 (the area code for the WHOLE state) as the standard for the public to contact SAR in the field once an emergency is declared. They ask that the victims tune their GMRS/FRS to channel 3 and enter privacy code 7. The actual details are at https://hls.wyo.gov/307. Does it works? Check out this FB link https://www.facebook.com/103003218816456/posts/135907112192733/. In truth, this case was successful and was aided by the use of GMRS, although the victims apparently weren't aware of the 307 standard. My family and friends spend a lot of time in the back country. I always carry an Iridium GPS and, now that the state Homeland Security is encouraging use GMRS, I just got my license and a Wouxun 935G. Have you guys seen similar standards encouraged in your states?

I’m in WY myself, just down the road from Poe Dunk, and I just got my GMRS license and radio as well. I’ll talk to ya! ?