It doesn’t take long before you realize that Pieps is the range leader when it comes to modern avalanche beacons. In test after test the DSP or Tour have the longest, most reliable receive range available (circa Jan. 2012). Whatever the configuration, single, multiple, best or worst coupled, other beacons can only hope to equal [...]
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Review: Pieps DSP and DSP Tour
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Posted in Beacons, Dostie, Craig, Pieps 
Tags: 3-antenna, digital signal processing, masking, triple antenna 
No Comments »Review: Ortovox S1
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The Sophisticated One, thanks to a graticle display and some amazing software can not only tell you distance and direction for a single beacon, but can show the relative positions, distances and directions of up to three at a time, four on a good day
Posted in Beacons, Dostie, Craig, Ortovox Tags: 3-antenna, graticle display, triple antenna No Comments »Review: Barryvox Pulse (2011, v3.0)
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Overview The Pulse doesn’t just up the ante from two to three antennas, but four. However, truth be told the value of this fourth antenna is as obvious as an appendix. To even mention the availability of this perhaps detracts from the value of the Pulse. The fourth antenna does nothing to help you find [...]
