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Subject: RE: [worldcruising] 406 EPIRB???
alan.pound@XXX.XXX
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 09:52:52 EST
121.5 is the aviation distress frequency, and scheduled flights (the heavy
metal) are *supposed* to monitor it in flight. If this monitoring actually
happens, the range of coverage is pretty good, given that they are up pretty
high and thus see a long way (VHF is line of sight), and you are somewhere
not too remote that there are no flights passing somewhere near overhead.
Alan Pound
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Haefele [mailto:lee@XXX.XXX]
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:50 PM
> To: Liveaboard; worldcruising@XXX.XXX
> Subject: [worldcruising] 406 EPIRB???
>
>
> I was wondering if I should buy a 406 epirb with integral GPS. ($979 @
> Defender) I already have a good 121.5mhz unit and a Standard VHF with
> DSC distress calling. I am about to sail south from Great Abaco,
> Bahamas, but only within Bahamas, (on a Bristol 32) then back to
> Florida, and I always take a crewperson. In this area, if I needed
> rescue, who would hear and respond to:
> 1)VHF ch 16
> 2)VHF DSC distress call
> 3)121.5 epirb
> 4)406 epirb
> So: Lots of boat and shore people have VHF, but may be out of
> range, or
> not able to arrange rescue.
> I am not sure who monitors DSC, in 2300 miles of cruising, mine has
> never received a distress call.
> I have never seen a boat with 121.5 receive capability, what is the
> usable range of these? Who monitors?
> Who monitors 406 epirb, do they dispatch to Bahamas?
> Lee Haefele
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