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In all honesty the simple solution for an SOS moment is to carry a Spot GPS Messenger or better still carry a PLB such as the FastFind 210,220 series.
These units send your GPS signal to a geo stationary sat and back to earth in around 3 minutes, locally it send the same signal out on the old...
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