General Information

Serial #

DEMONSTRATOR

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

SYNTHETIC CASING & PARTS/ METAL ANTENNA & PARTS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

17.4 cm

Width

7.5 cm

Height

4.8 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Space Technology

Category

Communications

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

MPR

Country

Canada

State/Province

British Columbia

City

Burnaby

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Unknown

Period

1991+

Canada

CANADIAN DESIGNED & BUILT DEVICE INTENDED FOR USEIN INTERNATIONAL COPAS/SARSAT SATELLITEPROGRAMME, IN WHICH CANADA WAS ONE OF ORIGINAL PARTICIPANTS. COPAS/SARSAT PROGRAMME WAS INITIATED IN 1979 & BECAME OPERATIONAL IN 1982. MPR WAS CONTRACTED BY FEDERAL GOV'T TO DEVELOP PLB FOR ARCTIC FIELD TRIALS, IN 1990 FIRST PLB'S WERE DELIVERED & IN OCT. 1990 DESIGN BEGAN ON POCKET PLB'S (1).

Function

EMERGENCY LOCATOR BEACON CARIED BY INDIVIDUAL IN ISOLATED LAND LOCATIONS. WHEN ACTIVATED, IT TRANSMITS SIGNAL TO ORBITING SATELLITE; SIGNAL ISRELAYED TO GROUND TERMINAL WHERE SIGNALING BEACON IS LOCATED & IDENTIFIED, & APPROPRIATE SEARCH & RESCUE AUTHORITIES NOTIFIED.

Technical

PLB USING DEDICATED 406 MHz FREQUENCY DETECTED BY LOW- ORBITING SATELLITES, THUS ALLOWING RAPID DETECTION, DETERMINATION OF POSITION WITHIN 5 KM, BEACON IDENTIFICATION & RAPID RESPONSE. MPR'S POCKET PLB IS 25% THE SIZE & 40% THE WEIGHT OF EARLIER MODEL PLB L-1000 (910023) & OPERATES AT -40 TO +55 DEGREES c. FOR OVER 24 HOURS (1).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

BLUE & RED BILINGUAL LETTERING READING 'MPR/ SATFIND-406/ Personal Locator Beacon' & 'Mod. L-2000/ MPR Teltech Ltd./ Burnaby, B.C., Canada/ COPAS-SARSAT Class 1/ CDN APP.: MPR/ 406.025 MHz, 5 Watts/ Temp.: -40 C to/a +55 c/ Dur.: 24 Hrs.', WITH OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS, NOTICES, WARNINGS/ BLACK LETTERINGON CLEAR DECAL READING 'DEMO UNIT/ Not functional. Does NOT contain batteries.'

Missing

BATTERIES

Finish

ORANGE CASING/ YELLOW ANTENNA

Decoration

N/A