March 4, 2007 23:49 - German POW camps from WW II
German POW camps of WW II are hard to locate today. Their prisoners of war lived several years (up till five) in regions with German names, with towns and villages with German names. Street names were German and even the local population was German. But at... Read more...
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March 5, 2007 15:20 - Sprint Nextel GPS Solutions
Sprint was the first
Already in October 2001 Sprint Nextel offered the U.S.'s first cellphone equipped for GPS-enhanced services, making it the only company to meet the FCC's mobile phone location detection deadline. The Samsung SPH-N300 was the phone of... Read more...
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March 13, 2007 11:14 - A PLB as the only link between you
and civilization
What is a PLB?
PLB stands for Personal Locator Beacon. A 406 MHz PLB is a battery-powered emergency transmitter which, when activated, sends a digitally encoded signal to the Cospas-Sarsat Satellite System. They are intended for personal use on land. A... Read more...
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