Updates, News, and Rumors (more)

• November 8, 2024—The Mammut Barryvox 2 and Barryvox S2 have been recalled due to a manufacturing problem affecting the power/send/search switch. These devices must be returned to Mammut for inspection/repair. Learn more about this recall.
• November 1, 2024—I retested the spike handling of several transceivers.
• October 19, 2024—Read a review of the recently released Pieps Pro IPS.
• October 15, 2024—The Barryvox 2 and Barryvox S2 have been released.
• October 15, 2024—The prices of the Ortovox Diract and Ortovox Diract Voice were lowered $10 and $70. The price of the soon-to-be discontinued Barryvox was lowed $86.
• March 15, 2024—Added the results of Black Diamond's extensive testing of electromagnetic interference with avalanche transceivers.
• February 15, 2024—I added a review of the Ortovox Diract Voice, a comparison of the Diract and Tracker transceivers, details regarding the status of the Recon LT, and information on the latest firmware updates. I also updated the transceiver comparison table, prices, and moved several transceiver reviews to the reviews of discontinued transceivers page.
• March 23, 2023—Black Diamond announced a voluntary recall of the Recon LT avalanche transceivers because "in rare and unlikely circumstances" they can "enter search mode due to interference from other beacons." Recon LT was available for less than two years.
• September 30, 2022—Read about updates to the Black Diamond/Pieps BT transceivers.
• July 28, 2022—Black Diamond announced a voluntary recall of essentially all Black Diamond and Pieps avalanche transceivers.
• May 26, 2022—BCA announced a voluntary recall of some Tracker4 avalanche transceivers.