Ameri-King AK-451 Series, Installation And Operation Manual

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Process for Registering a Beacon in the Cospas-Sarsat International 406 MHz Beacon
Registration Database (IBRD)
Your country may have elected to allow you to directly register your beacon in the
International 406 MHz Beacon Registration Database (IBRD), available online at
www.406registration.com. Click here for a list of these countries.
The IBRD became operational on the 16 January 2006. It provides capability to
register 406 MHz distress beacons and has extensive online help capabilities.
Individual beacon owners may register their beacons and select their own passwords
during the registration process if this use of the IBRD has been allowed by their
national Administration.
You will need the following information to register a beacon:
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Beacon Hexadecimal Identification (15 Hexadecimal characters)
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Owner name and phone number
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Emergency contact name and phone number
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Vehicle type (selectable from a menu)
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Vehicle name, MMSI, call sign or identification number (except for PLBs).
Cospas-Sarsat will only accept beacon registrations submitted via the online facilities
of the IBRD. Beacon registrations submitted in paper format or via other
communication facilities will not be accepted. The Cospas-Sarsat Secretariat
(mail@cospas-sarsat.int) is available to answer questions from National
Administrations concerning beacon coding and registration matters.
Administration User Accounts
The IBRD is freely available to users with no access to national registration facilities
and to Administrations who wish to avail themselves of the facility to make their
national beacon registration data more available to SAR services.
SAR Services and others wishing to query the IBRD will require passwords issued by
the Cospas-Sarsat Secretariat. In order to acquire appropriate passwords to access the
IBRD, National Administrations should:
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Designate a National IBRD Point of Contact, and
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Request that the Cospas-Sarsat Secretariat allocate user identifications and
passwords to their National IBRD Point of Contact.
The password and user identification request must be provided in writing to the
Database Administrator (i.e. the Cospas-Sarsat Secretariat) and must carry the
signature of the Cospas-Sarsat/IMO/ICAO Representative of the Administration. For
a letter template, please click here.
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