A multifunction Toshiba TV that emitted an aircraft emergency signal triggered a transcontinental chase earlier this month to an apartment in the college town of Corvallis, Oregon. When a rescue team knocked on his door, student Chris van Rossman was watching his 20-inch Toshiba flat-screen TV. The high-end set has built-in DVD, VCR and CD units. The rescuers were checking out an alert at the request of the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
I just bought a Kenwood TS 480 HX Ham radio and when someone turns the set on, it causes about 5 S units of niose. Thinking that maybe I had a bad cable I replaced everything with monster cables, and it still knocks out the receive on the radio. I was really blown away reading this story, I guess I need to contact Toshiba..
I once had a stereo system that I had to wire the outputs on the sound card for my computer to the imputs on the stereo in order to avoid having the frequencies broadcast by the running computer mess with the remote control circuitry in the stereo. Having the thing mute, then turn the volume up 100%, then randomly unmute wasn't exactly what I wanted from a system. The FCC rules about consumer electronics implies that they must be able to recieve and be interfered with. Not that they can be, but that they "should be" designed that way. This is imho total BS. There is no excuse for my microwave oven exploding because I used my garage door opener or something similarly stupid, but FCC regs not only allow this kind of stupidity, but encourage it. I am not surprised at all that a complex device, like the new TVs, just happen to produce a signal that created this situation. I am just suprised something like it hasn't happened earlier.
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Toshiba TV Emits Aircraft Emergency Signal
Posted by: Phil Adamsak October 19, 2004 10:57 AMA multifunction Toshiba TV that emitted an aircraft emergency signal triggered a transcontinental chase earlier this month to an apartment in the college town of Corvallis, Oregon. When a rescue team knocked on his door, student Chris van Rossman was watching his 20-inch Toshiba flat-screen TV. The high-end set has built-in DVD, VCR and CD units. The rescuers were checking out an alert at the request of the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
I was really blown away reading this story, I guess I need to contact Toshiba..