Your guess is as good as mine or anyone else I have talked to. We expected the FCC to approve ACR's Personal EPIRB (a PLB by any other name) by now, which would get around the problem, at least for many, but it appears to be held up at the FCC. No word on why. Write your Congresscritter? Whole thing sucks, but that's our government.<br><br><br>Doug Ritter<br>Editor<br>Equipped To Survive