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ACR Receives Canadian Approvals for New Personal Locator Beacons
MicroFix™ and ResQFix™ to Begin Shipping This Month

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL— MAY 7, 2007  — The world’s newest and smallest Personal Locator Beacons—the ResQFix™ and MicroFix™ from ACR Electronics—are now approved for sale in Canada.

This month ACR received a Technical Acceptance Certificate for the two beacons issued under the authority of Minister of Industry.

The ResQFix™ (marine version) and MicroFix™ (land version) are one-button activated, emergency signaling devices for all outdoors enthusiasts, including recreational boaters, commercial mariners and fishermen, hikers, hunters, climbers, pilots, skiers and snowmobilers.

The two models, which earlier this year received FCC approvals in the U.S., are 35% smaller and 25% lighter than their predecessors, the ACR AquaFix™ and TerraFix™. The AquaFix™ and TerraFix™ PLBs have aided in the rescue of a number of individuals around the world over the course of the last two years.

The suggested MSRP for the ResQFix™ and MicroFix™ is $750 US.

In an emergency, the ResQFix™ and MicroFix™ transmit on 406 MHz via the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system with the sender’s unique registered, digitally coded distress signal. Emergency officials monitoring the system not only will be able to tell who is sending the signal (thanks to the coding and registration data) but precisely where the signal is coming from as a result of the onboard GPS engine. The beacon’s highly-sensitive, built-in -136 dBm GPS receiver provides for faster acquisition, a bonus in any rescue where every second counts.

Once activated by a single button, the beacon’s built-in, 12-channel, parallel GPS acquires, then transmits LAT/LON, dramatically saving valuable time for the distress message to reach local rescue centers with exact coordinates to within 110 yards (100 meters). The beacons also simultaneously transmit a signal on the 121.5 MHz (SAR homing frequency) to assist rescuers in homing in once in the general area.

A PLB/P-EPIRB/P-ELT is a satellite-signaling device of last resort, for use when all other means of self-rescue have been exhausted and where the situation is grave and imminent and the loss of life, limb, eyesight or valuable property will occur without assistance. All beacons must be registered following purchase-- a simple and quick process, now with a web-base internet filing option. The National Search and Rescue Secretariat manages the registration database in Canada for all PLBs, EPIRBs and related beacons. For more information go to www.beacons@nss.gc.ca.

ACR Electronics, Inc., (www.acrelectronics.com) part of Cobham’s Avionics and Surveillance Division headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, designs and manufactures a complete line of safety and survival products including EPIRBs, PLBs, AIS, SARTs and safety accessories. The quality systems of this facility have been registered by UL to the ISO 9001:2000 Series Standards. Recognized as the world leader in safety and survival technologies, ACR has provided safety equipment to the aviation and marine industries as well as to the military since 1956.