"KØHB" wrote in message nk.net...
"N2EY" wrote

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/10182004_bb_tv.html

Jim,

Are you suggesting that Toshiba should employ non-professional amateur
engineers to build their TV's to avoid this problem?

Or are you suggesting that even professionally designed equipment may
sometimes fail and generate a "birdie" at 121.5 or 243.0?

Or were you just trolling?

73, de K0HB

Hello, Hans

C'mon, you know better than that. Perhaps the point is that equipment
sold in the United States is *supposed* to be (and likely was) checked
for radiated emissions. In my opinion, it should also be checked for
radiated immunity, but that's another story. Also, conducted
emissions are checked and now they even check if a system is
distorting the AC mains! That was coming on line when I left the test
lab in 1996.

Of course, commercial equipment can and does fail at times. I
remember we blew out the power supply of a monitor when we were
irradiating the device under test with 3 v/m unmodulated rf at around
220 MHz. The picture started to tear and then the breaker tripped.
Couldn't get it going again.

The FCC is preoccupied with authorizing BPL and as long as government
communications don't get hosed, they don't care. Apparently, however,
they don't like false signals being sent on distress frequencies.
They should stop being a mouthpiece for the current administration and
power companies and get back to trying to make the airwaves a viable
shared service for all.


Best regards from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA