The first thing to do after taking your new PLB, EPIRB or other beacon out of the box, is to register it with the appropriate authority. The registration can be as helpful to saving your life as the ...

The smallest PLB has 66 GPS channels, and it’s waterproof. Courtesy Ocean Signal. Buy Now. The Signal: The smallest of the three, it is waterproof to 15 meters. Like the others, it combines a 406 MHz ...

ACR Electronics today announced that ResQLink , the world's smallest 406 MHz Personal Locator Beacon (PLB), is FCC approved and is now being shipped to dealers and is for sale to consumers in the U.S.

Some people have a lot of confusion about the use of EPIRBs and PLBs and the mechanisms by which they work. Emergency beacons transmitting an SOS signal along with GPS coordinates became available in ...

Both a digital signal at 406 MHz and a lower analog signal at 121.5 MHz are sent out. Once the signal is received by a ground control center, they are forwarded to the proper RCC, or Rescue ...

The availability of the Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) changes that – it’s risk mitigation for adventurous people. April 11, 2008 Boating, camping, four-wheel driving, hiking, ...

First, the 406 has 50 times the transmitting power compared with my old 121.5 unit. According to Collins' article, 121.5 MHz ELTs only logged one save per 1,000 alerts -- that's a lot of false alarms.

The new ACR Electronics ELT 345 is designed for easy retrofit and operates on both 406 and 121.5 MHz. Share. Post. Share. Print. Copy. Email. By Bill Carey. September 21, 2015. More In Avionics.