Receiver Sorts EPIRB False Alarms

The new TSR is useful for testing EPIRBs and also helps to avoid false alarms.

Surrey UK based Sartech Engineering has launched the Terrestrial SAR Receiver (TSR), a specialist 406 MHz receiver able to warn if an EPIRB has been activated nearby. A large percentage of EPIRB alerts are false alarms, often caused by over enthusiastic testing or inadequately secured float-free beacons being lost overboard.

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