[TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
- From: "Tel-Tek Electronics" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:25:23 -0400
I think it's a myth...Someone starts these things, just to see how far
and fast it travels.
We have heard of harmonics, but a steady 121.5, me thinks not.
Just with us discussing it, he has achieved his objective.;-)
-Ed-
Tel-Tek Electronics
Ontario-Canada
teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
teltek@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary McCartney
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:17 AM
To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
I read that Toshiba is giving the guy a new set and they are taking the
troubled one away to check it out.
Gary McCartney
McCartney Electronics
Guelph Ontario Canada
Est. 1984
email: gary (at) number63.ca
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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