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Volume 16
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Number 10
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October 2003
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Personal Locator Beacons

Personal locator beacons, or PLBs, provide the benefits of 406 MHz distress signaling, but at a more affordable price. And unlike an EPIRB, they’re small enough to attach to a life jacket.
Above: From left to right: ACR Electronics GyPSI 406 PLB, SERPE-IESM KANNAD 406 XS-2, McMurdo Pains Wessex FastFind Plus, Wireless Concepts MicroPLB.
by Doug Ritter

The advantages of 406 MHz distress alerting over 121.5 MHz are significant and they are a proven lifesaver. The 121.5 MHz EPIRB is being aggressively phased out. Satellite alerting from 121.5 MHz EPIRBs will end in 2009, but the Coast Guard is trying to hurry things along even quicker. The CG has proposed to the FCC that certification of new class A, B and S (121.5 MHz) EPIRBs cease, and that by the end of 2006 the operation of these 121.5 EPIRBs cease; in other words, be declared illegal. …
 
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