ACR's ResQLink Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) was recently selected as the product of choice by the UK's Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to keep their lifeboat crews safe. Chosen because of ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Cobham Life Support-ACR Products today announced the launch of a new subscription-based satellite self test service, 406Link.com, now available to current ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Alpine Rescue Team is looking for a person repeatedly sending out false alarms from a personal locator beacon near Berthoud Pass. The signal from the ...

ACR Electronics today announced that ResQLink , the world's smallest 406 MHz Personal Locator Beacon (PLB), is FCC approved and is now being shipped to dealers and is for sale to consumers in the U.S.

Back in January, I wrote about how on three separate occasions in December, a personal locator beacon was triggered in the vicinity of Berthoud Pass. These false positives came from the same ACR ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A wilderness rescue device designed as a “just in case” safety lifeline has developed into a recurrent nuisance for search and rescue teams near Berthoud ...

April 11, 2008 Boating, camping, four-wheel driving, hiking, off-road motorcycling, snowmobiling – they’re all fun to do, and they all carry considerably more risk if you’re on your own – break a leg, ...

Gerry Angeli, head of ACR Electronics, with a marine emergency beacon (EPIRB) that survived a fire but still is working. JOSEPH A. MANN JR. SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI HERALD When Gerry Angeli, president and ...