Distress beacon, method and device for monitoring distress signals and vehicle including such a device

摘要

The distress beacon has an emitter stage (22) connected to an antenna and a receiver (21) set to a distress frequency and connected to the antenna. There is a sensor connected to the receiver output (21) to activate an alarm signal. The circuit can have a diplexer (23) to selectively connect the antenna to the emitter and receiver. An Independent claim is included for a method of processing a distress signal using the circuit.