Breitling Emergency 43mm Chronograph with Distress Transmitter

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12-18-2005 @ 5:46PM

m said...

I do not agree that this is a obsolete SAR freq! Where as the 406mhz EPIRB is a better tool and obviously has a better range in that it goes to the SARSAT, you need to keep the following in mind. Commercial aircraft still monitor the 121.5 frequency. The rescue control center will require two passes from the SARSAT on a 406 EPRIRB hit prior to sending any SAR assets to the device location, (that might be 90 mins to initial notification of the operational SAR asset).

Granted this might have changed in the six years it has been since getting out of the Coast Guard. But I can tell you that the 121.5 ELT has saved a number (and probably continues to do so) of lives and the fact remains that many times initial notification was made from passing aircraft that recieved the 121.5 signal.

I am of the opinion and concur that the likelyhood of using this device is limited, but if you have the financial means it makes sense to have all the available tools at your disposal for a potential survival situation, to include EPIRB and ELT, flares and signal mirrors, strobes and matches and fresh socks....food and water.

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