"Larry" wrote The emergency VHF button is a waste
of time because you'll be out of
range when you need it most.

True, but I'm just looking at coastal sailing in Maine at this point.
There are a lot of boats around and many of them commercial and USCG
inspected so it's pretty likely someone will pick up the signal.

Offshore, the 406 certainly. The 125.5's really are useless. I used
to be in the Civil Air Patrol and they couldn't even find them when
they were going off on the airport.

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Roger Long