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Climber hit by Lightning - Pierces Pass 5-Jan-2011 At 7:49:07 PM climberman

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Good report Jez, glad it ended well.

A good thing to note for everyone is that the further you are from a mobile phone base station, the harder your phone has to work to transmit and receive, and the faster it uses battery. This is especially so if you are talking on it. You are best to have it turned off, and then only turn it on for any emergency use. This seems to be why every person lost in the bush has their battery die out half way through their important call.

You could also tell the emergency services that you are turning off your phone to conserve battery but will turn it back on and check text messages in 30 minutes if the services want to send you a contact phone number for any emergency coordinator. Calling message bank/voicemail will drain battery as well - save the (extremely useful) capacity for direct conversation for when it's important.

Another good thing to remember is that text messaging uses much less power than transmitting a call. Unfortunaltely delivery is not guaranteed for text messages - ask any person you have sent one to to respond so you can be assured it has been delivered.

I'm not a telco engineer but have in the past spent around ten years in the telco game and so got to talk to lots of phone designers and network designers while doing mobile phone base station rolluts.