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Another mad Freeview box!

  • 16-02-2006 1:43pm
    #1
    watty
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    The neoLuddite Resistance Army (NRA) is today on Defcon Laguna following the chilling news that a second Freeview box has been making pre-invasion broadcasts to the Lizard Army battle fleet.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/15/freeview_transmission/


Comments

  • #2
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    sorry, what?


  • #3
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    sean_keevey wrote:
    sorry, what?

    It'll be a freeview box sending out a distress signal to the coastguard.

    They aren't supposed to do that, even if you do press the red button.


  • #4
    lawhec
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    The box in question was sending out a signal on the distress frequency of 121.5MHz, so my guess is that a fault had developed in the box where a sub-harmonic of the clock frequency of the CPU started radiating a signal. Curiously, both incidents have been along the Southern English coast. It would not surprise me if there have been more such faults with STBs inland but direction finding has ignored it.

    Mind you, when I read that the signal was picked up 600 miles away in Northern Scotland my first reaction was to give the box to the broadcast engineers to see who they could improve the network signals :D Then I read that it was picked up by a LEO satellite and relayed on. :o


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