Guys,
Unfortunately most of what has been posted on here about 406 Distress
Beacons is miss information - if you want to know the facts go to the
Cospas/SATSAT web site
http://www.cospas-sarsat.org/MainPages/indexEnglish.htm
SDF
-----Original Message-----
From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net
[mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Mike
Borgelt
Sent: Monday, 20 July 2009 5:57 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] 406Mhz beacons
At 03:01 PM 20/07/2009, you wrote:
>On 20/07/2009, at 2:33 PM, Simon Hackett wrote:
>
>>Who is 'the group' of which you speak?
>
>Not entirely sure, it is speculation based on 3rd hand information.
>(sorry if I didn't make that clear).
>
>The company that does it for SPOT is Pivotel - probably to do with the
>use of satellite phone network.
>
>Also all companies importing satellite equipment in Australia have to
>be "ACA and C" approved (not exactly sure who they are - maybe they
>mean ACMA ?) - Again I got this 3rd hand, I don't have the definitive
>source.
>
>Scott
This isn't the only example of nasty insidious Australian restraint
of trade provisions enshrined in law. (quite apart from the local
authors' bleatings last week- if they were any good they'd sell
anyway. The entertainment industry's number one problem is content or
enough of it.)
Apparently set top boxes of the more advanced kind for use in
Australia have certain features disabled that the average user might
find useful. Nice.
Mike
Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since
1978
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