Cell phones work just fine from mountain tops. Hood is no exception.
Hoping battery is charged enough, and warm enough, to work.
Cell phones work just fine from mountain tops.I'm not buying that; I think we would have heard MORE from these guys AND have successfully placed calls TO them that one of them would have PICKED UP and ANSWERED.
(As an aside, I would really like to hear from any other celular systems designer's to hear their 'take' on engineering for 'coverage' of any given "mountain top" here in the US; specifically, did they run any propagation plots and choose sites and suitable antennas having some 'uptilt' to achieve reliable mountaintop coverage. Also, how does one perform 'frequency planning' in a situation like that.)
It still doesn't negate having proper COMMS (communications equipment) that can talk DIRECTLY with rescuers FLYING overhead.
Something as simple as an FRS radio can accomplish that feat.