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Jan

11

EPIRB UPDATE

Author: Joe

Offshore sailors who carry either an on-vessel EPIRB or a transportable Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) are reminded that from end January 2009 the 121.2/243 MHz waveband ceases to be monitored as an alert frequency.

After this date, beacons transmitting on this frequency will only be used for localised homing, so for the most part they are redundant. (more…)

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