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Old 4th Nov 2006, 00:16
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Aser
 
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It can take hours for an ELT signal received there to be responded to, partly because there are so many false activations.
That's one of the reasons to quit using of 121.5 ELTs by 2009
http://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/phaseout.html
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