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EPIRB and position
A GPIRB is an EPIRB that is equipped with a global positioning system ( GPS ) sensor which enables the distress signal to incorporate the latitude and longitude position of the party in distress.
The original COSPAS / SARSAT satellites could calculate EPIRB position to within about by using Doppler techniques.

EPIRB and .
It is not advisable to travel into these especially remote areas with a single vehicle, unless fully equipped with good communication technology ( e. g. a satellite phone, EPIRB etc .).
In addition, the GOES satellites carry Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon ( EPIRB ) and Emergency Locator Transmitter ( ELT ) receivers, which are used for search-and-rescue purposes by the U. S. Air Force Rescue Coordination Center.
* The area is fairly remote, and few people hike here, so make sure your plans are left with a responsible person, and consider taking an EPIRB.
Distress radio beacons, also known as emergency beacons, ELT or EPIRB, are tracking transmitters which aid in the detection and location of boats, aircraft, and people in distress.
In addition, a distress can be signaled using automated radio signals such as a Search and Rescue Transponder ( SART ) which responds to 9GHz radar signal, or a Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon ( EPIRB ) which operates in the 406 MHz radio frequency.
EPIRB signals are received and processed by a constellation of satellites known as COSPAS-SARSAT.
A few fuel drums, a fuel tank, the EPIRB, an empty life raft, and some other flotsam were the only wreckage ever found.
These four countries jointly helped develop the 406 MHz Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon ( EPIRB ), an element of the GMDSS designed to operate with Cospas-Sarsat system.
By the end of 2010 EPIRB manufacturers may be offering AIS ( Automatic Identification System ) enabled beacons.
The EPIRB is an example of a similar device.
In 2001, support for Lokata EPIRB products was transferred to Sartech Engineering Ltd.

both and notifies
The Act provides, however, that if an individual older than twenty-five years notifies the Privy Council of his or her intention to marry without the consent of the Sovereign, then he or she may lawfully do so after one year, unless both houses of Parliament expressly disapprove of the marriage.
He notifies them of the possibility of Sun being Sayid's target but they both re-assure him she is safe.
The sponsor collects AE reports from the local researchers, and notifies all participating sites of the AEs at the other sites, as well as both the local investigators ' and the sponsors ' judgment of the seriousness of the AEs.

both and alerts
A routine inspection of his California drivers license turned up no warrants or alerts, although his name was known to both the NSA and the CIA as a suspected terrorist.
Studies of black-tailed prairie dogs suggest that alarm-calling is a form of kin selection, as a prairie dog ’ s call alerts both offspring and nondescended kin, such as cousins, nephews and nieces.
The explosive devices, which triggered security alerts in the US, UK, and Middle East, were apparently both inserted in printer cartridges and placed in packages addressed to synagogues in the Chicago area.
At the moment of a touch, it is customary ( but not mandatory ) for the defensive player who is performing the touch to shout " Touch ", which alerts both the attacking and defensive teams and the referees that the player has been touched.
These may include alarm signals that use both aural and visual alerts.
When Bradley " Rad " White and Carlos Lopez investigate the caves outside their city, they accidentally uncover the wreckage of the Mini-Con ship and activate it, causing it to send a signal that alerts both the Autobots and Decepticons as to the Mini-Cons ' presence on Earth.
The goby, having the better vision, alerts the shrimp of danger using a characteristic tail movement, and then both retreat into the safety of the shared burrow.
A code amber alerts was issued in response to both the London bombings on 7 July and 21 July in 2005.

both and authorities
They both approach fellow doctors and town authorities about their theory, but are eventually dismissed on the basis of one death.
The chief authorities on the career of Alaric are: the historian Orosius and the poet Claudian, both contemporary, neither disinterested ; Zosimus, a historian who lived probably about half a century after Alaric's death ; and Jordanes, a Goth who wrote the history of his nation in 551, basing his work on The Trojan War.
Under the new system, most territorial authorities cover both urban and rural land.
Parkinson actively attempted to persuade the authorities to avoid dividing the university, but to maintain it to serve both Singapore and Malaya in Johor Bahru.
In the military sphere, authorities can prosecute both regular crimes and specific acts ( such as mutiny or desertion ) under martial-law codes that either supplant or extend civil codes in times of ( for example ) war.
Recognizing Syn as Clegg, Tappitt realized that Syn and the Scarecrow were the same and helped the authorities set a trap for him, hoping to both rid himself of his enemy and claim the reward for his capture.
USAIDs Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance had a team of experts working with Salvadoran relief authorities immediately after both quakes, and provided assistance totaling more than $ 14 million.
For that reason both types of bodies have advisory councils which have advisory and co-decision authorities.
Perhaps there were elements of both, or as we see elsewhere in the New Testament, the Jewish authorities may have stirred up the secular authorities to suppress the Christians.
However, since Han's island is only partly in their jurisdiction, they are unable to conduct any formal investigations-Han will not allow firearms on the island, both to impede assassination attempts and to prevent the international authorities from gaining a justification to launch a raid.
Erhard's decision to lift many price controls in 1948 ( despite opposition from both the social democratic opposition and Allied authorities ), plus his advocacy of free markets, helped set the Federal Republic on its strong growth from wartime devastation.
However, they were captured, returned to the French authorities, and both Ogé and Chavennes were executed in February 1791.
In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.
Halakhic authorities may disagree on which laws fall into which categories or the circumstances ( if any ) under which prior Rabbinic rulings can be re-examined by contemporary rabbis, but all halakhic Jews hold that both categories exist and that the first category is immutable, with exceptions only for life-saving and similar emergency circumstances.
The authorities of both countries appealed urgently and repeatedly to King Sigismund to release Jan Hus ( John Huss ).
Because it rejected original sin and divine Revelation, both Protestant and Catholic authorities took offense.
Marx returned to Paris, which was then under the grip of both a reactionary counter-revolution and a cholera epidemic, and was soon expelled by the city authorities who considered him a political threat.
This theory is usually deprecated on grounds of lack of evidence, by both Masonic authorities and historians.
The main roles of the Namibia Defence Force are to ensure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country by guarding against external aggression, both conventional and unconventional ; prevent violation of Namibia ’ s territorial integrity ; and provide assistance to civil authorities in guarding and protecting government buildings and key installations as provided in the Defence Act.
According to professor A. V. Dicey in An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, the essential features of a federal constitution are: a ) A written supreme constitution in order to prevent disputes between the jurisdictions of the Federal and State authorities ; b ) A distribution of power between the Federal and State governments and c ) A Supreme Court vested with the power to interpret the Constitution and enforce the law of the land remaining independent of both the executive and legislative branches.
Another example is Cao Dai, a Vietnamese faith that duplicates the Catholic hierarchy, which is declared legitimate by religious authorities in Cao Dai due to the fact that, according to them, God created both Catholicism and Cao Dai.
Among other policy recommendations the US team advised that " in order to shield the interests of both Colombian and US authorities against ' interventionist ' charges any special aid given for internal security was to be sterile and covert in nature.
Investigations by both US and UK authorities resulted, in 2010, in plea bargain agreements with the company, by which it paid $ 447 million in fines but did not admit to bribery.
Among the details he gave authorities, was that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lieutenant had told him that Reid and Abderraouf Jdey had both been enlisted by the al-Qaeda chief to carry out identical shoe-bombing plots as part of a second wave of attacks against the United States, and that they had successfully blown up Flight 587, while Reid had been stymied.

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