REFLECTOR:ELT

[KeithHallsten]

This once again shows what the cost breakdown is for certified hardware.
$1,400 for a boating application, $2,500 for an aircraft application, so the
FAA paperwork costs $1,100 per unit!!

Nevertheless, some manufacturer is going to realize that the potential sales
are several hundred thousand units, and if they can get the price down, a
lot of us will go for an ELT that might actually help in a crash.  The
price/performance ratio of a 406 Mhz unit at $2,000 is probably much better
than that of a 121.5 MHz unit at $500.

I haven't seen the odd line on reflector posts.

Keith


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <richard@riley.net>
To: <reflector@tvbf.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR:ELT


> At 04:09 PM 5/4/03 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >The ACK unit is probably a good way to go for now, unless you really want
> >an ELT that works; in that case you would have to spring $2500 or so for
a
> >406 MHz unit.  The 121.5/243 MHz units will no longer be monitored after
> >early 2009, so by then we'll all have to go to the 406 MHz units.  The
> >hope is that the price on them will have dropped by then.
>
> You can get a 406 mhz ELT with a built in 12 channel GPS for about $1300
at
> retail - probably less than $1000 wholesale.  http://tinyurl.com/aytf
>
> Since it's made for boating use it doesn't have an inertia switch - but
I'd
> think you should be able to salvage an inertia switch from a used 121.5
> unit for less than $50.  Any thoughts?
>
> BTW, is everyone else getting a first line on the reflector posts that
> reads something like
>
> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w =
> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word">
>
> Or is it just me?
>
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