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Old 18th May 2014, 20:43
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Fox3WheresMyBanana
 
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The 406MHz EPIRB can either give a location within 2-3 miles by satellite triangulation, or 100m with an integrated GPS (significantly more expensive).

Most of those I met going transatlantic had, as I did, a manually activated, non-gps unit.
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