Patent ID: 6943700
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: G01S

Abstract:
1. Distress beacon installed onboard a vehicle comprising a plurality of VHF transceivers, said beacon comprising: a transmitter stage, which transmits a distress signal when said beacon is activated; a receiver stage for continuous listening of a distress frequency; and a diplexer connected to said transmitter stage and to said receiver stage for connecting one of these stages to an antenna, said receiver stage being connected to a computer in the vehicle, which activates a discrete signal and triggers an alarm to vehicle crew members when a distress signal is received by the receiver stage on said distress frequency, and which communicates with a tuning device of said VHF transceivers, when an alarm is triggered in order to preselect said distress frequency on this tuning device such that when vehicle crew members want to listen to said distress frequency, they have only to validate the distress frequency on one of said VHF receivers.