[ICOM] And You Thought You Had TVI Problems !

[D C Macdonald]

Not that CBS and CNN are paragons of the truth,
but they, and probably other networks, carried
the story about the incident of 2 Oct 2004.

Mac, K2GKK/5



----Original Message Follows----
From: "n4lq" <n4lq at iglou.com>
Reply-To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ICOM] And You Thought You Had TVI Problems !
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:07:42 -0400

Cheeesh. I get this stuff from everywhere else but didn't expect it on
the Icom reflector. Hope you don't beleive it!

-----Original Message-----
From: htankin at comcast.net
To: icom at mailman.qth.net (Icom Reflector), 1000mp at mailman.qth.net
(1000mp Reflector)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:26:12 +0000
Subject: [ICOM] And You Thought You Had TVI Problems !

 >  Ya gotta love this.......Harry WE1X
 >
 > ************************************
 >
 > 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)
 >
 > EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) -- TV hardly gets much better than this.
 >
 > 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.
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