Jim Just act like you didn't read that crap. 121.5 / 243.0 will light up every time one go's off longer than we will be around to need them. Every military aircraft and ATC facility will monitor them for years and years .
Steve Bray Jackson, Tennessee >From: "JIM VANCE" <va...@hbcomm.net> >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> >To: "krnet" <kr...@mylist.net> >Subject: KR> ELT >Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 08:08:17 -0500 > >I just learned that my new emergency locator transmitter has become >obsolete before I got it airborne the first time. The current 121.5/243.0 >Megahertz analog ELT's will no longer be monitored after February 2009. >They are being replaced by a new digital system that operates on 506.0 >Megahertz that will be much more accurate. > >Of course, the new units will cost about ten times what the older ones >cost. That will be a $1000 to $1500 investment, compared to $195 for the >current ones. > >The details of this change are in a great article starting on page 113 of >the April 2006 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. > >It looks like I will have a 10% increase in the cost of building my KR-2. > >Jim Vance >Claflin, KS >va...@hbcomm.net >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
