[TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
- From: "Tel-Tek Electronics" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:01:13 -0400
Actually.... reflecting back...I guess it didn't really matter.
-Ed-
Tel-Tek Electronics
Ontario-Canada
teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
teltek@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Myers
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:51 AM
To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
I remember, and have never recommended a Toshiba product to a customer
since! I also used to be Toshiba authorized, maybe that's why they
canceled me.
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Since 1972
Jim Myers
Telrad Electronics
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Hoyt's TV wrote:
> 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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