WWW.RADIOSOND.COM
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AVALANCHE
(Start
of Activity)
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The idea for an
underwater radiosonde arose from the confluence of several different
areas of
knowledge and experience. One of the most important was the development
of
devices for searching for people in avalanches. Quite a long time ago,
almost
45 years ago, I went mountaineering, primarily in the Tien Shan. These
are
challenging mountains. They have a lot of snow, which can fall on you
at any
moment.
Many people ignored
this danger and died in avalanches. But there were those who cared
about the
fate of skiers and tourists. They began creating the first devices for
searching for people in avalanches back in the late 1960s. |
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I became interested
in this topic; after all, I wanted to return from my hikes alive. So I
started
searching for information on these devices. The most useful information
came
from a German magazine, "Sport and Fashion," from sometime between 1979
and 1980, or maybe even earlier. I found this magazine in the State
Public
Scientific and Technical Library, which in those distant years was
located on
Kuznetsky Most Street, in the very center of Moscow.
Now the library has
been relocated to the outskirts. But the New York Public Library is
still
located in downtown New York, on Fifth Avenue, if I'm not mistaken.
I've been
there, stopped by. It's impressive. |
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<>So, the magazine
featured detailed electrical diagrams of the "Pips" avalanche search
device. Unfortunately, copies of that article no longer exist, which is
a
shame. But I remember almost the entire diagram. And interestingly, it
also
included information on the extended use of these devices in snowfall
conditions.
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Using this journal,
I put together several circuits. They work. And on my next mountain
hike, I
took two devices with me to test them out in the mountains. This was
all new to
me.
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Here we will go to
the section page that describes how I studied this topic and visited
avalanche
stations.
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