Thread: Search and Rescue contacts for NZ - PLB and inReach or SPOT

Hi, what are the Search and Rescue organisations your PLB / inReach or whatever might connect to ?

The traditional PLB seems to go to Cospas/Sarstat which sounds as if it works well in NZ. The PLB is primarily 406 MHz to satellites and also has a 121.5 MHz homing signal which is supposed to help that last little bit at the end.

The Garmin inReach goes via Iridium (sat phone) satellites to "GEOS" which as far as I can tell is just a Garmin only service that passes on mesages to local SAR organisations but I can't figure out who in NZ. Some forum posts report good responses.

What is the RCCNZ ? A NZ outfit TrackMe apparently send their inReach messages there. Is that the same as the Garmin service or different ?

Could you just txt message from an InReach to NZ Land SAR via 111 ?

I think I've only got half the story here. Can anyone point me to fulling in the current NZ picture ?