Why should it be advantageous to break your reciever? You’ve been dropped in a wild, mountainous region, with only as many supplies as you can carry down on your parachute. Finding and coordinating with another human is to your advantage, even if you don’t get extracted immediately upon meeting the objective. The wilderness is no place to sit down on a hilltop. You need to find food, water, shelter and protection from predators, and doing this with someone else to help you is immensely easier. We formed tribes in the first place for exactly this reason.
Because both people are competent and capable of survival alone, but its more work to travel; by having a radio that transmits but doesn’t receive, you can transmit your location and the fact that you can’t receive, and the other person is forced to come to you rather than come to the point halfway between the two of you.
Why should it be advantageous to break your reciever? You’ve been dropped in a wild, mountainous region, with only as many supplies as you can carry down on your parachute. Finding and coordinating with another human is to your advantage, even if you don’t get extracted immediately upon meeting the objective. The wilderness is no place to sit down on a hilltop. You need to find food, water, shelter and protection from predators, and doing this with someone else to help you is immensely easier. We formed tribes in the first place for exactly this reason.
Because both people are competent and capable of survival alone, but its more work to travel; by having a radio that transmits but doesn’t receive, you can transmit your location and the fact that you can’t receive, and the other person is forced to come to you rather than come to the point halfway between the two of you.