
Y1-03-0362 Rev. A
Company Confidential
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Activating Your Beacon
Overview
Personal Locator Beacons are designed to be manually activated. They are only to be activated
when all other means of self-rescue have been exhausted. When properly registered as
required, the activation of the beacon tells Search and Rescue who you are, where you are, and
that you are facing a life-threatening situation. Note: Beacon should be activated in open space
with clear view of the sky (eg. Not under any sort of cover or canopy)
How to Activate Your Beacon
To activate your beacon in a distress situation, follow these steps:
1.
Unclip the antenna latch from the case and rotate antenna 90
degrees into the upright position. (ON/OFF button will be exposed on
face of beacon once antenna is in upright position)
2.
Depress the ON/OFF button for 2 seconds.
When activated:
The strobe light will flash twice and the
red
LED will
flash once to let you know the beacon has been
activated. The strobe light and Infrared (IR) strobe light
will both then continue to flash once approximately
every 10 seconds for the entire time the beacon is
activated (Note: The IR strobe is not visible to the
naked eye). The
red
LED will flash approximately once
every 5 seconds prior to the beacon acquiring your GPS
coordinates.
Once the beacon acquires your GPS coordinates, the
flashing
red
light will be replaced by a flashing
green
light which will flash approximately once every 5
seconds. The flashing
green
light indicates the beacon
is transmitting your GPS coordinates along with your
406 MHz distress signal.
Fifty seconds after activation, a single
blue
light will flash
between flashes of the
red
or
green
light, indicating that the
RLS (Return Link Service) emergency message has been sent
to SAR (Search and Rescue) authorities. Once the single
blue
flash changes to a double
blue
flash, this confirms that your
emergency RLS message has been received by SAR authorities.