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The Death of 121.5 EPIRB For The Coast Guard

By On January 22, 2009

Starting February 1, 2009 the COSPAS-SARSAT system will cease coverage 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz emergency beacons and will begin tracking distress signals exclusively from the 406 MHz frequency. All [...]

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EPIRB, GPIRB, ELT, PLB… What’s The Difference?

By On December 20, 2008

In the following video we discus the various types of Position Indicating Radio Beacons. We explore the diffrences between an EPIRB, GPIRB, ELT and the increasingly less expensive PLB’s . [...]

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Holiday Gift Guide | Spot Globalstar Messenger – Emergency Locater

By On November 22, 2007

Panbo, the marine electronics blog, brings us today’s gCaptain Holiday Gift Suggestion. The unit is the SPOT Satellite Messenger & Emergency Locater and it’s fairly amazing. First a note. This [...]

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