Groomer Warning Beacons

[JedInUtah]

About 2 years ago I used to help manage the Utah Snowmobile Association forum and the grooming reports for the different complexes. That forum has since been shut down, but while I was there I worked with Collett Communications to get Groomer Warning Beacons for all the snowcats in the state.
I have that box of beacons and need to get them to the parks dept. Don't know if they will install them on the groomers or not, but if so would anyone out there use something like that?

In other words are there many out there who use helmet communicators that could hear the signal??

 

[Do_Not_Give_Up]

Snowmobile groomer warning beacons receivers

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[sled_guy]

So me and my group and really no one I know uses helmet communicators. But we do use regular 2way radios. The BCA one is now popular with my group, but even just the FRS/GRS ones. It would be cool if the warning system could be made to broadcast on one of those channels... we could set our radios to use that channel and use them as normal but if we got close to the groomer then we would hear the warning.

That said, I have been riding in Utah for nearly 40 years and I have come across a groomer on the trail no more than a dozen times... but I don't spend a lot of time on the trails either.

sled_guy

 

[jardine]

wait they have groomers in utah?? you would never know with all this bumpy trails.