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Title: A COMPREHENSIVE TESTING TOOLKIT FOR AVALANCHE RESCUE TRANSCEIVERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: The goal of the MountainSafety.info Avalanche Rescue Transceiver Testing Toolkit is to provide to anyone with some technical background interested in ...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.62.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, transceiver testing, avalanche beacon, search strip width, group check, user interface
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Title: PERFORMANCE IN SIMULATED AVALANCHE RESCUE: IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT AND CONTINUING RECREATIONAL EDUCATION
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Kristiaan A. Brauer
Description: Successful avalanche companion rescue is a matter of time, a rescuer must remember how to quickly locate, extract and provide medical care to a buried...
Object ID: ISSW2024_P11.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche beacon, rescue training, shoveling, probing
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Title: AVALANCHE TRANSCEIVERS, ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE AND THE 20/50 RULE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Bruce Edgerly
Description: Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is an increasing concern in the snow safety community, as it can affect the performance of avalanche rescue transce...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P2.60.pdf
Keywords: avalanche transceiver, avalanche beacon, electrical interference, electrical noise, electromagnetic interference, electromagnetic noise, emi
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Title: USING GROUP SEARCH TECHNIQUES AND LANE DISCIPLINE TO BUILD AN EFFECTIVE "SEARCH ARRAY" IN AVALANCHE RESCUE
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Jim Conway
Description: Professionals and recreational rescuers have a variety of techniques to deploy during avalanche rescues based on conditions, manpower, and rescuer exp...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.05.pdf
Keywords: avalanche safety, avalanche rescue, searching in parallel, search strip width, avalanche transceiver, avalanche beacon, transceiver search, beacon search
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Title: EFFECTIVENESS OF AVALANCHE RESCUE TRAINING WITH STUDENTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jan-Thomas Fischer
Description: We studied the effectiveness of avalanche rescue training with groups of university students performing an avalanche search and rescue training. The s...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.15.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche beacon, rescue training, shoveling, probing
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Title: Simplifying the Signal Search: Why You Don’t Need to Rotate Your Transceiver Vertically
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bruce Edgerly
Description: In companion rescue and avalanche search-and-rescue (AvSAR) courses, most avalanche instructors will tell you to rotate your transceiver on all three ...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P16.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche transceiver, avalanche beacon, signal search, primary search, optimal coupling, effective range, maximum range, search strip width
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Title: Herding Cats: Increasing Public Avalanche Awareness at Copper Mountain Resort
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Reed B. Ryan, Max J. Tyler
Description: During the 2015-2016 season, Copper Mountain Resort (CMR), in Summit County, Colorado, introduced a program encouraging guests to wear avalanche beaco...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.42.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, inbounds avalanche, avalanche education, avalanche awareness
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Title: Avalanche Beacon Parks: Focus on Skill Development and Team Coordination
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Audrey Desjardins, Saul Greenberg, Ron Wakkary, Jeff Hambelton
Description: We observe and describe the ways backcountry recreationists use a wireless avalanche beacon training park located on a ski hill. From those observatio...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.23.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon training park, team coordination, avalanche companion rescue, beacon, transceiver
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Title: Analysis of State-of-the-Art Approaches for “Marking” During Multiburial Beacon Search Versus the Aspects of Fully Maintaining the EN300718 Standard
Date: 2012
Authors: Michael Schober, Markus Eck, Michael Rust
Description: Over the recent years most of the state-of-the-art beacons now support the search for multiple burials using signal analysis strategies. Due to this, ...
Object ID: issw-2012-214-223.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, transmitting range, avalanche safety
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Title: New Public Avalanche Awareness Opportunities - Are You Beeping?
Date: 2012
Authors: Scott R. Waller, Andy Hill, Dick Willy
Description: As members of Cascade Backcountry Ski Patrol (CBSP) and the Ski Patrol Rescue Team (SPART) of King Country Search and Rescue, we strive to increase av...
Object ID: issw-2012-848-854.pdf
Keywords: search and rescue, avalanche awareness, avalanche beacon
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Title: Updating and Expansion of a Field Study to Optimize the Search Strip Width of Avalanche Beacons
Date: 2009
Authors: Marcellus Schreilechner, Markus Eck, Michael Schober
Description: The range of an avalanche beacon depends on certain technical characteristics of the device and the position of the transmitter (or victim) relative t...
Object ID: issw-2009-0681-0685.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, useful range, dgps, search strip width
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Title: Multiple Burial Beacon Searches with Marking Functions
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Thomas S. Lund
Description: Locating multiple buried avalanche victims can be a difficult job for the average recreationalist. To simplify the task, modern avalanche beacons have...
Object ID: P__8103.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, transceiver, marking, multiple burial, signal overlap
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Title: A Systematic Approach to Optimize Avalanche Beacon Design for Minimum Search Time
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Rolf Matzner
Description: The time required to search a buried person using an avalanche beacon contributes significantly to the overall rescue time. This paper investigates th...
Object ID: P__8080.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, safety, multi-burial
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Title: New Definition of the Useful Range Using a Reliable, Accurate, and Reproducible Test Procedure with Practical Relevance - Running a Field Test Tracked by a DGPS
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Markus Eck, Michael Schober, Marcellus Schreilechner
Description: We have used a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) for tracking the search trajectories of a rescuer at three different orientations of the ...
Object ID: P__8242.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, useful range, dgps, field study, coupling position, search strip width
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Title: Digging Deeper: Uncovering the Real Issues in North American Multiple Burials
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Jon Mullen
Description: For avalanche educators, time is precious. When teaching avalanche rescue to recreationists, what takes priority? To determine what the crux issues ar...
Object ID: P__8201.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon, transceiver, avalanche education, multiple burial, shoveling, excavation
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