[TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
- From: "Technotronic Dimensions" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:06:11 -0400
Resolder C451 - Fixed.
Steve Hearns
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----- 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
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Newburgh N.Y. 12550
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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)
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> 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
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