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 ...

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.

In addition to giving a life link in rescues, this new PLB also gives reassuring feedback to the user by proving it’s registering GPS position and by reporting battery power. New test functions allow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 same ACR PLB-300 Microfix was beamed in an ...

A small-boat ditch-bag should include essential safety and communication gear in case you're stranded or have to abandon ship. The post How to Build a Small-Boat Ditch Bag appeared first on Sport ...

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 ...

The Federal Communications Commission has ordered a Fort Lauderdale company to pay $65,000 for violating regulatory rules. The government agency said ACR Electronics marketed intentional radiating ...

ACR Electronics, Inc., shares a milestone registration update from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) database which recently hit a record number of 500,000 registered 406 MHz ...