Article: Rescue tales inspire EPIRB: ACR's iPro has a digital display and dual GPS technology.(Product roundup)(GlobalFix iPro Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons)

If you listen to enough sea survival stories, people will tell you they worried because they didn't know the battery life of their EPIRB; they didn't know if the EPIRB was really working; or they were holding

onto the EPIRB's antenna the entire time they were in the water. (And possibly from the latter that the Coast Guard had a hard time homing in on them.)

ACR Electronics has spent a fair amount of time listening to stories like these. "We've heard these gems of wisdom over and over and thought we could work a display into the EPIRB to allow the user to develop a comfort level with the beacon," says ACR's Chris Wahler.

The result is the ...

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