"Wolfgang" wrote in
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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
. 1.4...

You can yell as loudly as a whistle
can, FOR AWHILE, assuming you're not injured.....

Maybe. I remain skeptical. But volume and tenacity aren't
necessarily always the key issues, anyway. High frequency sounds
carry much better through background noise.......like rushing water,
or wind in the trees. Birds figured it out years ago. In addition, a
signal note, regardless of pitch, is much more likely to be noticed if
it is of long duration. A whistle requires relatively little air
flow. It's pretty easy to hold a note for thirty seconds or more on a
whistle. Try that with a maximum volume shout sometime.......and half
a dozen or so shouts like that will pretty much fry most people's
vocal cords.

Wolfgang
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Don't have to sell it to me. I'm with you. Pound for pound and dollar for
dollar, in terms of safety equipment, a whistle is a hell of a deal. I
also think that when you have a whistle, everybody around you is a little
bit safer. Let's say you use a buddy system, one buddy busts a long bone
descending a gorge-- now what. Without a whistle, there's a larger chance
that the uninjured guy will have to hike back up and get help, or carry the
breakee out of the gorge solo, but with a whistle there's a bigger chance
that help might come to you.

I'll keep promoting my whistle carry to newbies.

Scott