Rare, yes. Unheard of, no. I seem to recall a similar incident here in
the US a few years ago. The culprit was a television set, and I think it
was up in either OR or WA state. The search was launched and the TV set
owner, a college student as I remember, was real surprised when a whole lot
of people showed up at his door, unhappy. I think the TV set manufacturer
replaced his set for free.
73, Dale
WA9ENA
kd4e
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01/19/2006 09:39 Subject
AM [RFI] Digital TV Box Generates
121.5MHz Signal
Please respond to
kd4e@verizon.net
It is comical that they are so surprised that
these things generate RF!
73, kd4e
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The RAF said a rogue signal from a digital television
box which sparked a rescue mission was a "complete freak".
RAF spokesman Michael Mulford said: "Our Kinloss rescue
centre picked up this beacon from one of five orbiting
satellites listening out for these things.
"It was a 121.5 transmission - that's the major emergency
frequency, a Mayday. We traced it to Portsmouth Harbour,
checked and found out there were no vessels in the area
or missing planes.
"We checked with Ofcom and they quickly established it
was coming from a household. It turned out to be a
faulty Freeview box. This is very very unusual, it's
a complete freak and the odds of a digibox sending
out a 121.5 signal must be astronomical."
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=69662006
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Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
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