[TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
- From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:01:36 -0400
WoW Ed.
I never met anyone else who even knew about that subversive transfer of US
stealth technology during the cold war.
Most look at me like I'm nuts when I mention it.
Sharp was involved in that too. I think we sold them the machinery and
programs that was capable of manufacturing "quiet" stuff and they sold it to
the USSR.
Russ Hoyt
Hoyt's TV
Exeter, NH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tel-Tek Electronics" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 9:52 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
> Would not put it past Toshiba. Never trusted them after we found out
> they were selling Submarine Props to the then...Soviet Union.;-)
>
>
>
> Tel-Tek Electronics
> Ontario-Canada
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hoyt's TV
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 9:44 AM
> To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
>
> Ch 2 Ch 3
> Lower edge 54.0 60.0
> Video 55.25 61.25
> Chroma 58.83 64.83
> Audio 59.75 65.75
>
> 1/2 of 121.5 = 60.75
> Ch 3 video x 2 = 122.5, in aircraft channels that's a long way from
> 121.5.
> An off frequency cable box could be producing 121.5 but that wouldn't be
> coming from the TV.
> On Ch 3 the local oscillator would have to be about 15mhz above 61.25
> which
> won't make anything even close to 121.5.
> I think there's a spook in the TV.
>
> Russ Hoyt
> Hoyt's TV
> Exeter, NH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Gutz" <alg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:57 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
>
>
> > Set runs on ch 3 with cable box. Third harmonic of ch 3 hits around
> the
> > 120 mhz range.
> >
> > Have heard that one of the chops on the sat recievers caused them to
> > send out signal in the VHF band that interfered with aircraft freq.
> >
> > Al G
> >
> > Hoyt's TV wrote:
> > > I'd certainly want to know what was in there to generate 121.5. It
> almost
> > > makes you think some agency might have been tracking that particular
> TV
> or
> > > something. I bet he could find a local TV shop that would like to
> take
> it
> > > apart to look inside.
> > >
> > > I'm surprised they didn't confiscate the thing. Maybe when the right
> agent
> > > hears about it, they will come back for it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Russ Hoyt
> > > Hoyt's TV
> > > Exeter, NH
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "becyn" <becyn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:18 PM
> > > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hmmmm,
> > >>Now how did THAT happen???????
> > >>Did big brother put the wrong type of transmitter in his set? Makes
> one
> > >>wonder...
> > >>
> > >>Jim McVey
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> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >>From: "Thomas Woodward" <thomas.woodward@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:06 PM
> > >>Subject: [TechAssist] intersting off topic
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Flat-screen TV emits international distress signal
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Search and rescue operation leads to apartment
> > >>>
> > >>>Monday, October 18, 2004 Posted: 7:15 PM EDT (2315 GMT)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old
> Toshiba
> > >>>Corporation flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress
> signal
> > >>>picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to
> his
> > >>>apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland.
> > >>>
> > >>>The signal from Chris van Rossmann's TV was routed by satellite to
> the
> > >>>Air Force Rescue Center at Langley Air Base in Virginia.
> > >>>
> > >>>On October 2, the 20 year-old college student was visited at his
> > >>>apartment in the small university town by a contingent of local
> police,
> > >>>civil air patrol and search and rescue personnel.
> > >>>
> > >>>"They'd never seen signal come that strong from a home appliance,"
> said
> > >>>van Rossmann. "They were quite surprised. I think we all were."
> > >>>
> > >>>Authorities had expected to find a boat or small plane with a
> > >>>malfunctioning transponder, the usual culprit in such incidents,
> > >>>emitting the 121.5 MHz frequency of the distress signal used
> > >>>internationally.
> > >>>
> > >>>Van Rossmann said he was told to keep his TV off to avoid paying a
> > >>>$10,000 fine for "willingly broadcasting a false distress signal."
> > >>>
> > >>>Toshiba contacted Rossmann and offered to provide him with a
> replacement
> > >>>set for free, he said.
> > >>>
> > >>>--
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> > >>>Multimedia Networks Manager
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> > >>>
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> > >>>617-521-2764
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