[Biggirl]

Good Morning/Afternoon, megaRushTakesOnTheLibsdittos from Biggirl!:)=^..^=

[Biggirl]

Giant PING List.

[TomGuy]

FoxNews reported that some 34 arbitrary changes have been made to Obamacare.

They played a clip of Sebilius saying the FED would not extend the individual mandate beyond March 31. Then, they reported of the new delay to mid April.

Chris Plante on his radio program was commenting that this new delay is on the honor system. If you think you didn’t complete your enrollment, you click a box and make everything alright.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[ExCTCitizen]

Hello All...where’s Global Warming? At my house it was 39 degree this morning.

[Artcore]

You know, Rush convinces me more and more that we are screwed beyond repair.

Three hours a day of reminding us how the Dems our kicking our A$$es.

I need a break from this crap.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

California politicians tried to get Rush kicked off the air for "offending" Chinese . . . .

That's exactly how Rush got his start at KFBK in Sacramento in 1983 (84?).

Morton Downey, Jr. was kicked off the air by local politicians for saying Chinaman on the air.

They had been trying everything they could think of to put an end to Downey's "offensive" conservative opinions.

[Yosemitest]

Rush, that caller about ELTs and Under Water Beacons is wrong about ELTs and Line-Of-Sight Receivers.

ELTs are monitored and their geographic location is identified by SATELLITE monitors as well as ground based radio receivers.

Even more that 350 or 450 miles, we would have an automated alert on an ELT going off after 3 seconds.

[Yosemitest]

Rush, look at this and know that MH370 had the newer, updated ELTs.

Beacon Operation

GPS-based, registered

The most modern 406 MHz beacons with GPS (US$ $300+ in 2010) track with a precision of 100 meters in the 70% of the world closest to the equator, and send a serial number so the responsible authority can look up phone numbers to notify the registrator (e.g. next-of-kin) in four minutes.

The GPS system permits stationary, wide-view geosynchronous communications satellites to enhance the doppler position received by low Earth orbit satellites. EPIRB beacons with built-in GPS are usually called GPIRBs, for GPS Position-Indicating Radio Beacon or Global Position-Indicating Radio Beacon.

However, rescue cannot begin until a doppler track is available. The COSPAS-SARSAT specifications say [7] that a beacon location is not considered "resolved" unless at least two doppler tracks match or a doppler track confirms an encoded (GPS) track. One or more GPS tracks are not sufficient.

High-precision registered

An intermediate technology 406 MHz beacon (now mostly obsolete in favor of GPS enabled units) has worldwide coverage, locates within 2 km (12.5 km² search area), notifies kin and rescuers in 2 hours maximum (46 min average), and has a serial number to look up phone numbers, etc. This can take up to two hours because it has to use moving weather satellites to locate the beacon. To help locate the beacon, the beacon's frequency is controlled to 2 parts per billion, and its power is a hefty five watts.

Both of the above types of beacons usually include an auxiliary 25 milliwatt beacon at 121.5 MHz to guide rescue aircraft.

So the ELT would have been heard and after 3 seconds, a satellite would have generated an automated report on its location, that it would have send an immediate and urgent notice on.

Someone would have responded to that location immediately.