[TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
- From: Edward Gaidies <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:03:00 -0400
Or Canadian.
Some of the younger guys probably though it was a new Reality show on
Fox.;-)
As I said...don't really matter now...does it?
-Ed-
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Ed Gaidies
Tel-Tek Electronics
Ontario-Canada
teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
teltek@xxxxxxxxx
On 23-Oct-04, at 2:07 PM, G.Larkman wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember seeing ads on TV
> pushing for
> a boycott of toshiba products. They had a few congressman or senators
> smashing toshiba vcrs and tv's with sledge hammers...........how could
> any
> american not know about it???
>
> Glenn Larkman
> Audiotech
> 256 Nth Hwy 101
> ENCINITAS CA 92024
> 760 944 9048
> FAX 944 0345
> mail to"mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> "www.audiotech.net"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hoyt's TV" <hoytstv@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 7:01 AM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
>
>
> 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
>>
>> teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> teltek@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>>>> McVey Alltronix
>>>>> 327 Broadway
>>>>> Newburgh N.Y. 12550
>>>>>
>>>>> Factory authorized
>>>>> service for over 20
>>>>> major brands.
>>>>> 845 561 8383
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Thomas S. Woodward
>>>>>> Multimedia Networks Manager
>>>>>> Master tech 09165
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Simmons College
>>>>>> 300 The Fenway
>>>>>> Boston Ma. 02115
>>>>>> 617-521-2764
>>>>>> 617-893-9226 (Cell)
>>>>>> mailto:woodwart@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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