Combat Search and Rescue, Now Pocket Size.

• Author: Baker, A. Duffy
• Position: Brief Article

Mororola Communications Enterprise, of Scottsdale, Arize,, has introduced a Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR), GPS-112 Personnel Location System. This technology companies beacon, radio, transponder, GPS and two-way messaging capabilities into a hand-held radio and interrogator system. There are three parts to the system needed for a typical CSAR operation.

The first part is used by the search-rescue team, in the air. The Quickdraw Interrogator (pictured on the left) can plug into the crewmember's headset connector on the intercom panel of virtually any aircraft, transforming it into a CSAR platform, and runs on four AA batteries. It connects to a GPS-112 through the aircraft's ultra-high frequency line-of-sight radio. The information is communicated in single, short burst to the GPS-112 hand-held radio, providing the crew with the location of the grounded soldiers within 25 meters. It can be programmed to respond to either a specific identification code or to an...