Dick, I think one of the (many) reasons that lots of pilots wanted to keep the old system was that it provided a SARWATCH for everyone who had to submit details or chose to submit details. It did provide a sense of security, knowing that ‘someone’ was waiting to hear your report at the next estimate, plus or minus 2 minutes. (It also provided a false sense of security that ‘everyone’ in the area was on the same frequency and known. But a sense of security is a sense of security, false or otherwise.) However, I think technological advances - SATPHONES, 406GPS ELT and PLBs and mobile phone location technologies - have long since rendered the old SARWATCH system redundant.