On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:15:40 -0700, Jay Honeck
wrote in . com:

My son and I were active in Civil Air Patrol a couple of years ago.
The primary training mission was Search and Rescue, utilizing radio
direction finders that allowed us to find transponders that were going
off.

Do you mean Emergency Location Transmitters instead of transponder

With the impending transition to 406 mhz transponders that will give
far more accurate location information upon activation, we will no
longer need fatigue-clad cadets trudging through the woods on SAR
missions.

The can continue to jot down all the N-numbers of aircraft at airports
and report them to the DEA as usual.

CAP is a good organization for kids, basically "Boy Scouts With a
Mission". Given that Search and Rescue is their primary mission, I
wonder what's gonna happen to CAP?

They may get updated radio equipment, and continue doing SAR.