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, ...

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.

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 ...

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... 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 ...

FT. LAUDERDALE, Florida, Aug. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ACR Electronics, Inc., a leader in safety and signaling technologies, announced today at the Seawork International event that they have been ...

A while ago, I wrote about rescues and who should save you in the mountains. The story arose from an incident on Mt. Hood. One of the overreactions to the deaths of the three climbers has been the ...

Setting up a remote orienteering course with a friend, Jill Clendon stepped forward to place a marker on a small bush. Initially she thought she would drop perhaps a few centimetres as often happens ...