PARDON ME! All the specifics can be found and read on the Coast Guard Navigation site starting with the second paragraph. The termination dates and the reasons for termination are given, The site URL is http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/gmdss/epirb.htm JR SanFrancisco
----- Original Message ----- From: <feg...@sbcglobal.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 7:14 AM Subject: Re: KR> ELT > 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________ > 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 >
