Wolfie Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Oregon TV emits distress signal, triggers search18 Oct 2004 22:27:08 GMT --- Source: ReutersEUGENE, Oregon, Oct 18 (Reuters) - TV hardly gets much better than this. An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corp. <6502.T> 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 (110 km) 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 Oct. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretender Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Whoa.. Interesting.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Dodge- Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 What the heck? Why does a TV have a distress signal on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretender Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Uhm... *Shrug* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockoncheese101 Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 I have NO idea on what Wolfie just said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretender Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 Then don't reply We send off our own stress signals when you do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted December 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 It was a distress signal, not a stress one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretender Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 *oops* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephisto Posted December 30, 2004 Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 Anyone know where I can get a TV like that? I have some plans I could use it for... *evil laughter* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted December 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 I'd like to have it just so I could hook it up to that ball that drops to bring in the new year... It'd light up (turn it on), drop, deactivate, all in less than a minute, and would happen yearly. I'd make sure the signal would only last a minute, and then see how many years it would take them to figure it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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