Follow up. A search on Sarsat/US and Sarsat/Russia satellites will verify completion dates. JR SanFrancisco
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bray" <rsb...@hotmail.com> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 6:12 AM Subject: RE: KR> ELT > 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 > > > > _______________________________________ > 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 >
