[FedCom] Civil Air Patrol Remote Emergency Receivers

[Bryan Herbert]

CAP has been doing this for years here in California. Back in the mid 
90s while working the Watsonville Fly-In 4 ELTs had activated along the 
flightline, the signals were picked up by the local CAP repeater and 
relayed every couple of minutes. Many smaller airports are also doing 
the same thing or something similar, I know of one airport here in Kern 
County that patches Guard into the CTAF so everyone listening to the 
tower on their personal radios will hear the ELT the moment it 
activates. There is also an airport in Northern California that has 
connected a scanner to the airports landline so if an ELT activates you 
hear it the moment you pick up the phone.

Ken wrote:

> Recent public information indicates that Civil Air Patrol is 
> installing some remote 121.5 mhz receivers on some of their mountain 
> top repeater sites. When the receiver receives a signal on 121.5 it 
> activates a digital voice transmitter that announces "ELT (and the 
> repeater site name/designation)".
>
> If you are monitoring and hear activiation, please post it to this list. 


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