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Not necessarily, I'm not sure if they have been phased out in favour of GPS now though.
We used to have a mixture of both on various jobs.

Yes, GPS PLB.
Where position is encoded into the distress message.
Response times are meant to be much quicker over a straight 406 beacon.

Was the beacon GPS encoded?

That would have been frustrating but at least a good out come and relief for those monitoring your trip.

I was referring to a PLB rather than personal trackers.
Trackers have their own set of...

The bloke taking the HUET course I attended the other day said the next generation PLBs will receive conformation back from the satellite confirming that it has picked up the users distress signal. I...