[TechAssist] Re: intersting off topic
- From: "Tel-Tek Electronics" <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:52:15 -0400
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
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[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...
> >>
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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.
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>Thomas S. Woodward
> >>>Multimedia Networks Manager
> >>>Master tech 09165
> >>>
> >>>Simmons College
> >>>300 The Fenway
> >>>Boston Ma. 02115
> >>>617-521-2764
> >>>617-893-9226 (Cell)
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