Personal Radio Beacon
Glavkosmos
A personal emergency radio beacon that determines and transmits the location of a person in distress via satellite navigation systems, enabling search-and-rescue forces to home in on the distress site and communicate with the person by voice.
Key figurescomparable across the catalogue
- Mass
- 0.53 kg
- Largest dimension
- 175 mm
- Lead time
- 6 months
Normalised to common units so this product can be compared with others in its category. The supplier's own wording is below.
As published by the supplier
- Purpose
- Intended: determine and transmit position data of a place of distress, to enable rescue forces to home in on the place of distress, to provide people in distress and search and rescue forces with the voice simplex radio communication. Works through space navigation systems (SNS).
- Year of release
- 2007
- Lead time
- 6 months
- Flight qualification of the product
- No
- Possibility to adapt the product to customer requirements
- Yes
- Operating temperature range
- from -40 to +55 °C
- Mass
- 530 g
- Emitting power
- on frequency 406,037 MHz – 5.0 W; on frequency 121.5 MHz – > 30 mWt
- Carrier frequency
- PRD-406 – 406,037 MHz; PRD-121 – 121.5 MHz
- Dimensions
- 55 × 79 × 175 mm
About
The Personal Radio Beacon is a self-contained emergency distress and rescue device designed to determine and transmit the position of a place of distress, enabling rescue forces to home in on that location. It also provides people in distress and search-and-rescue forces with voice simplex radio communication. The beacon works through space navigation systems (SNS) such as GLONASS/GPS. It comprises a GLONASS/GPS receiver with an antenna, a ПРД-406 transmitter operating on 406.037 MHz, a ПРД-121 transceiver operating on 121.5 MHz, an AНT-AРМ-02 transmitting-receiving antenna, an indicator for displaying position and service data, a self-contained power supply, a rechargeable battery, and a charger. The device can optionally be completed with a hermetic and shockproof box for storage and carrying. It has an operating temperature range of -40 to +55°C, weighs 530 g, and has dimensions of 55x79x175 mm. The emitting power is 5.0 W on the 406.037 MHz frequency and greater than 30 mW on the 121.5 MHz frequency. The product was first released in 2007, has an estimated production/delivery time of 6 months, is not flight-qualified, and can be adapted to customer requirements.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.