Originally Posted by
Eul0gy
I thought 121.5 was still monitored as I work on a station where we look after ground to air comms on the emergancy freqs. If we do any radio servicing or testing we have to get permission from Scampton or boulmer (cant remember of top of my head)
It is, and as wiggy pointed out, folks get a reply. That's fine if you are airborne - you are not going to be heard bobbing about in the water or in some remote part of the countryside. The satellites used to monitor it, buy not anymore. We had 9 years of warning and still failed to procure a suitable beacon in time.
A bit like mode S - 4 years warning for that one I think, and still not all aircraft have it.
And 8.33 radios ...
And ....