[PVRCNC] TV emits aircraft distress signal

Jim Talens jtalens at rcn.com
Tue Oct 19 17:13:45 EDT 2004


It's on page A24 of today's Washington Post.

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It seems that this man's TV set was emitting a signal on the 121.5 
aircraft distress freq.  The rescue people tracked it to his door and 
finally TV set (a SONY).

Not really surprising.  I once had a monitor which put out RF trash up 
to 2M.

73 de Brian/K3KO

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