"Roger" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:55:16 -0500, brian whatcott
wrote:

Jim Logajan wrote:
Within 60 days of being published in the Federal Registry, use of 121.5
MHz ELTs will be forbidden by a re-write and re-title of
47 CFR section 87.195:

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_publi...C-10-103A1.pdf

"The manufacture, importation, sale or use of 121.5 MHz ELTs is
prohibited."

The original text of 47 CFR section 87.195 may be read he

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-...998&TYP E=PDF

Two issues:
1) There are ELTs that support both 121.5 and 406 MHz, yet the
one-sentence regulation doesn't acknowledge their existence, so it can
be interpreted to mean their use too is prohibited.

2) There are going to be a lot of seriously annoyed and ****ed owners of
"older" equipment.

The basis for banning the sale of ordinary 121.5 ELTs (one exception) is
that there is no sattelite facility to listen on this frequency and
(apparently) the uch better success rate of locating 406.0 406.1 ELTs.

Hey, If the FAA doesn't care if I have a 121.5 ELT, neither do I.

Roger

Good point, Roger,

A similar discussion came up some time ago, at a live seminar rather than on
usenet, and the result was that the FAA had better uses for their time and
manpower than to enforce FCC rules. That was then and...

Deja vu is never exact and the use of cell phones (both then and now) would
generally work for the mutual convenience of both pilots and controllers
while alarms from parked aircraft and ELT use by back packers and cliff
climbers appear to have caused a lot of serious problems for various
agencies including FAA; so this could well be different--especially when
false alarms are involved.

Just my $0.02
Peter

It seems evident that any ELT which can offer an emission which is
listened for (on 406.0/ 406.1) will be encouraged.

Brian W