Camping Gear & Outdoor Mountain Equipment

Don’t leave home without the ACR Microfix GPS Beacon. This small life save is meant to be carried into the forbidden danger zones of the outdoors. The Microfix 406 Beacon will  alert a rescue agency of your whereabouts so that you can be briskly extracted to safety and out of harms way. The way it works is that it communicates a signal through a satellite and gives them your exact coordinates. As is with most outdoor adventures you may not be near a pay phone when your camping on a mountain glacier at 400 ft of altitude. The Microfix GPS beacon is the more cost effective solution for those who just can’t scrap up enough cash for a satellite phone which are by the way not as reliable as one would think.

The device is very light and is water resistant up to and including 16 feet. It’s pervious model which was called the TerraFix was much bulkier and did not stand up to the most extreme weather conditions. Learning from the past ACR made great strides in creating a GPS device that is reliable and durable for emergencies. I often think about those news stories of the 6 trapped miners in Utah and how perhaps one of these GPS units might have speed up the search and rescue. But then it dawned on me. What good would a satellite GPS beacon be if you were 100 meters underground. Oh well, i’m sure there is plenty of other disaster scenarios that would require a MicroFix Beacon.