APRS has the ability to provide an emergency beacon that can be used when a person is in trouble.

The emergency beacon is similar to a PAN or SOS voice call. When an emergency beacon is received by other APRS stations alert the operator and provide the station with location information associated with the transmitter of the beacon.

If the receiving station is running an APRS enabled Kenwood hand held or mobile radio the radio will produce an audible alarm and display the bearing of the station sending the emergency beacon. If an emergency beacon is received by an APRS home station the stations display may automatically zoom into the emergency beacons location and sound a alarm.

As the APRS system is linked international it is possible that a local emergency beacon will trigger thousands of APRS station alarms around the globe.

This is a powerful feature of APRS and is required to be used appropriately.

UI-View Reception of Emergency Beacons

UI-View can receive Emergency Beacons with the use of the UI-Emergency add-on.

To install UI-Emergency first download both files below, unzip and install UI-Emergency1.1. Do not run the program after you have installed it. Download UI-Emergency Update1.2 , unzip the update file in to  the 'APRS Emergency' directory. If you get asked to replace an existing file answer Yes as you need to replace the original file. You can now run UI-Emergency and configure it to your own liking.

What do I do if I receive an APRS Emergency Beacon.

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