Yep, my dad was in the Civil Air Patrol for many years and would be called out to look for crashed planes only to find the emitter sitting on a work bench behind some guy's house. Probably not the same EPIRB system, but same concept...
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Date: 4/11/18 11:42 AM (GMT-06:00) To: C&C List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Marek Dziedzic <dziedzi...@hotmail.com> Subject: Stus-List EPIRB testing and registration This might be of interest to some of us. Apparently there are quite a few false alarms for EPIRB (and similar systems). there was an interesting blurb regarding this problem at Sail Feed: https://www.sailfeed.com/2018/04/its-406-epirb-day/?utm_source=sail-enewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=textlink&utm_campaign=enewsletter_SAIL180410 Marek
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