- Date
- 2009-02-01
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communicationemergency-managementtransportation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February issue warned that, beginning February 1, 2009, search-and-rescue systems would process digital 406 MHz EPIRB alerts rather than older analog 121.5 or 243 MHz signals.
Evidence limits
This is a public-information notice, not an inventory of Island equipment or a record of any particular distress alert.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, February 2009, "Old EPIRBs Go the Way of Old TVs."States that Coast Guard and search-and-rescue satellites would process digital 406 MHz distress alerts rather than older analog 121.5 or 243 MHz EPIRBs beginning February 1, 2009. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the safety notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Coast Guard distress-alert processing transitions to digital 406 MHz EPIRBs, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-epirb-digital-transition-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2009, "Old EPIRBs Go the Way of Old TVs." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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