May 23, 2005

ACR Equips Business Executives for Adventures in Greenland

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL-- MAY 23, 2005-- ACR Electronics, Inc., the world leader in safety and survival technologies, has outfitted a group of six business executives for a mountain climbing adventure in Greenland to be featured in an upcoming edition of Forbes magazine.

The Adventures in Greenland group, including Forbes adventurer Jim Clash, will climb virgin mountains in Greenland from May 18th to June 2nd.

Expedition leader Robert Anderson, a renowned mountaineer with ascents on Mt. Everest, chose Greenland because of its vast unexplored ranges and relatively mild temperatures in the spring (10° F to 35° F). It is also fairly accessible from the United States.

On each new summit, the group plans to name the particular mountain.  The group is carrying Explorers Club Flag. No. 103, which has been to the top of all "Seven Summits" (the highest mountain on each continent) via Anderson, to be returned to the Club upon completion of the expedition. Joining with Anderson and Clash are Intesar Haider, Chris Heintz, Laura Hughey and Yoo Jim Kim.  The Adventures in Greenland can be followed on www.forbes.com.

Along with this intrepid sextet of adventurers will be the new TerraFix™ 406 GPS Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) manufactured by ACR Electronics, Inc.  ACR has also supplied the group with its new Firefly3® rescue strobe light and insulating ThermaBlankets.

Approved by the FCC, the TerraFix™ 406 GPS PLB is designed to provide outdoor enthusiasts with the smallest and most functional PLB available in the world.

The TerraFix™ 406 provides users with the ability to broadcast critical GPS coordinates, providing Search and Rescue crews with exact latitude and longitude, thereby increasing emergency response speed by pinpointing positioning within 100 meters (110 yards). The TerraFix™ 406 GPS units transmit a unique digitally coded distress signal on 406 MHz frequency to the orbiting COSPAS-SARSAT satellite systems.  The TerraFix™ 406 also simultaneously transmits a signal on the 121.5 MHz (SAR homing frequency).

More reliable than typical communications devices such as emergency two-way radios, cellular phones or satellite phones, the ACR TerraFix™ 406 GPS PLB works at -20° C, is waterproof up to 5 meters (16.5 ft)  and is powered by a non-hazardous 5-year lithium battery, so it is capable of continual transmission for over 24 hours. Lightweight at just 12 oz. (338 g), the TerraFix™ 406 measures 1.74 x 5.71 x 3.03 in (4.4 x 14.5 x 7.7 cm).

This marks the second time an ACR personal locator beacon has been used in a Greenland expedition.  Explorer Lonnie Dupre and Australian teammate John Hoelscher carried ACR's first-generation GyPSI™ 406 PLB every inch of the way as they trail-blazed their way along the coast and on land around immense but little-known Greenland-- an amazing 6,500 mile journey taking nearly two years, successfully concluding in 2001. (Dupre and new partner Eric Larsen are currently carrying the new TerraFix™ in their newest quest to cross the arctic ocean in specially adapted canoes).

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 Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) manages the registration database in the U.S. for all PLBs, EPIRBs and related beacons.

ACR Electronics, Inc., a Chelton Group Company, designs and manufactures a complete line of safety and survival products including EPIRBs, P-ELTs/P-EPIRBs/ PLBs, Bridge-based Information Systems, 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.