I was searching for an old post of mine and I came across this thread.
Following my last post in February 2022, I was a member of a ground party that went out east of Calgary to lay out the "wreckage panels" and operate an ELT on 123.1 MHz. We had a VHF portable for communicating with the searching aircraft.
I discovered that within 10 to 20 metres of the ELT, I could receive the very distinctive ELT signal on all VHF frequencies from 118 MHz to 137 MHz!
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=308409280982883