{"id":868,"date":"2006-12-26T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=868"},"modified":"2006-12-26T07:36:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T12:36:43","slug":"how-to-use-a-signal-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/12\/26\/how-to-use-a-signal-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use a signal mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows a signal mirror can save your bacon if you&#8217;re lost in the wilderness, but how many of us actually know how to use one?  At risk of posting something of actual use to actual hikers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equipped.com\/signal.htm\">here&#8217;s a link with an illustration showing exactly how to use a signal mirror<\/a> (you have to scroll down a ways for all the details&#8211; it&#8217;s on a page for small-aircraft pilots).<\/p>\n<p><P>The item also weighs whether people should bother with old CDs like the ones AOL used to mail out in quantity.  The conclusion: No.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In tests a CD proved to be only about 20%-25% as effective (distance and brightness at distance, judged subjectively) as a 3 x 5 mil-spec plastic signal mirror, a bit more effective, but not even 50% compared to a small 2 x 3 mil-spec plastic signal mirror. It would compare worse against higher quality mirrors.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nFrom an operational persepctive, in an After-Action Report of a major SAREX (Search and Rescue Training Exercise) conducted in 2001 by the Colorado Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, the conclusions were, &#8220;that &#8220;victims&#8221; who had never used a signal mirror (with the aiming hole in the middle) were able to use them effectively, while CD&#8217;s (AOL etc.) are useless as signal mirrors.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good signal mirror can send a flash for miles, but it has to be aimed at at somebody who&#8217;ll see the flash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows a signal mirror can save your bacon if you&#8217;re lost in the wilderness, but how many of us actually know how to use one? At risk of posting something of actual use to actual hikers, here&#8217;s a link&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/12\/26\/how-to-use-a-signal-mirror\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}