Oregon man's T-V signals for help

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[Dominick]

dee deee deee deee

My BS alert went off.

These signals are not a simple CW anymore.

Air Force officials, a police officer and a search and rescue deputy were outside.

Civil Air Patrol people are not Air Force, and there is no fine for malfunctioning equipment like this.

[DrDavid]

Toshiba- they are the company which transferred US submarine technology to the communists. I've been boycotting them ever since, but I'd expect a west coast liberal to buy their products.

It was the Japanese machine tool manufacturing branch of the company that sold machine tools to the Soviet Union. The US part of the company just makes computers and computer parts and TVs.

[blackdog]

I bought a Northstar Loran in 1994 for $300 installed. If I did GPS comparisons on ADF/NDB approaches using both, the loran was more accurate and updated the display faster. I questioned the life I would get from it because they were funding loran stations only very short term. Well, it's ten years later and I guess I got my $300 worth.

[kaboom]

But honey, that damn TV keeps ordering up the Playboy channel!

[MineralMan]

"Well, it's ten years later and I guess I got my $300 worth."

Sounds like it. I tried to find out the current status of LORAN-C, but didn't get very far. Lots of folks are still interested in keeping it going, though.

One reason I can think of is that the military might well have reasons at one time or another to mess with GPS to throw an enemy off-track. I believe that has happened a few times already, causing problems for civilian GPS users.

[em2vn]

Thank Goodness the hostage rescue team from Ruby Ridge wasn't dispatched to his house. If so all of his problems would be over for eternity.

[blackdog]

I've hit a few Loran dead zones too. South side of Charlotte,NC and some spots near Chicago. I'm a lazy pilot and believe strongly in backup navigation. The more the better.

[skinkinthegrass]

It was the Japanese machine tool manufacturing branch of the company that sold machine tools to the Soviet Union.

true...submarine technology for making prop./screw blades?...DAMN THE WALKERS. :((

[PAR35]

The US part of the company just makes computers and computer parts and TVs.

Check again. I don't think there is any "US part" making anything. Curtis-Mathis was the last company that made TVs in the US, and I think they even finally gave up. There are some "computer part" manufacturers in the US but it looks like TEAK just has sales and distribution offices here, with perhaps some design work: http://www.toshiba.com/taec/HR/where.shtml . If they have manufacturing, it isn't readily apparent from the jobs listing. http://www.toshiba.com/taec/HR/new_positions.shtml

In any event, Toshiba is a Japanese company which made it possible for the Reds to manufacture quieter submarine propellers.

[Denver Ditdat]

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[RightWhale]

When the plane suffers an impact of a certain G-Force,

If you set down a little hard it can set off the alarm. It might be wise for the next pilot of the club plane to check the skin for wrinkles a little more diligently during the walk-around preflight.

[RightWhale]

Is this new broadband over the power lines really going to eliminate international SW reception? Art Bell says it is.

[Denver Ditdat]

I believe what they are talking about here is the 121.5 MHz ELT radios in every plane which are designed to turn on when they detect a shock in excess of a certain (I don't know the number) of G's.

I had a couple of "teeth clacker" landings while learning to fly that had me tuning to 121.5 to make sure I hadn't set off the EPIRB. Never did, though. I can't remember how many Gs are necessary to trigger the transmitter, either, but I suspect that I probably would have had to have bent metal to set it off.

[Doohickey]

Could be 243MHz as well.

[Doohickey]

It was the milling machinery used to manufacture submarine propellers.

[Chemist_Geek]

Yeah, I forgot that old EPIRBs transmit on that frequency as well.

[Denver Ditdat]

It has the potential to create a lot of noise on the high frequency bands. I don't live close enough to a BPL test site to have heard it myself, but I have heard wav files of the interference. Unless it's a pretty strong signal, BPL can definitely create havoc.

More BPL info here: Broadband Over Power Line (BPL) and Amateur Radio

[blackdog]

I was trying to make it reader friendly to the non-aviation crowd. I've driven the mains to a Seneca thru the upper skin on the wings and have never set off an ELT. I think the ELT's get set off by well meaning pilots with check-list-itis who are too concerned with dual VOR's being four degrees off from each other than to have remembered to not screw with the "Armed" ELT.

I had to rescue a flipped taildragger out of a soybean field last week. One bad wing, crunched tail, and a prop strike. Some braced spars with some tack welds, some duct tape, and prayers on the crank shaft got it home. Not one of the bounces or customery tail loops along with a flip on it's back set off the ELT.

[Conservative4Ever]

Better than getting caught flying the American flag upside down.

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