They're Listening, Evidently

You’re sitting there, minding your own business, watching your flat screen Toshiba teevee, and there’s a knock on the door.  You’re not expecting anyone, certainly not any ”...Air Force staffers, a policeman and a search and rescue officer...," but there they are at your front door anyway.  What the heck is up with this, you think to yourself.  Well, this is what is up with that.

"What they found was a man watching his Toshiba flat-screen TV equipped with a built-in VCR, DVD and CD player. It seems the TV was sending out the 121.5 MHz distress signal."

And what is the outcome of this little search and rescue operation?

"Van Rossman was ordered to keep his TV turned off - or face a $10,000 fine for emitting a false distress alert."

Dang, I hope Van Rossman didn’t miss the Yankees/Red Sox game last night.

“Toshiba TV cries for help."

Via Google News.

Posted by on 10/19 at 05:12 AM

  1. Well, let’s see.
    A little math.

    121.5/2=60.75Mhz which in turn is an extreme but direct hamonic of the power line frequncy… 60hz.  It’s also the rate of horizontal scan.(if each gets a little dirty)

    Given the mathmatical properties of this base frequency of 121.5Mhz, and the rather high chances of spurs getting into this channel.... plus the nature of low level signal work that would come upin an emergency situation, 121.5 seems a rather STOOPID freqency to settle on.

    Also doesn’t seem reasonable that this is the first such incident… again, given the properties of the frequencies involved.

    Posted by bithead  on  10/19  at  09:38 AM

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