121.5 MHz ELT Ban Dropped By FCC
By Kerry Lynch
At the request of FAA, the Federal Communications Commission last week formally halted a prohibition on the certification, manufacture, sale or use of emergency locator transmitters (ELT) that use the 121.5 MHz frequency.
FCC had called for the prohibition after the international Cospas-Sarsat organization announced in 2000 that it planned to end satellite processing of distress signals from 121.5 MHz beacons beginning in 2009. The organization ...
