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Signs of the Future?On the day that OFCOM release their updates for unlicensed use of low power FM transmitters and CB equipment, this from today’s Daily Mirror: 23 November 2006 PILOTS HIT BY DODGY CALLS A CAR dealer using an illegal cordless telephone risked crashing thousands of packed aircraft as he haggled over motor sales. His dodgy handset was tuned into the same frequency air traffic controllers use to direct jets. Pilots flying at 25,000ft were forced to listen to his Arthur Daley-style banter, fearing it could block vital instructions from the ground. One said: "We could hear chit-chat about cars but never enough to tell where it came from." Forty planes an hour in an area stretching from Manchester to central Scotland were put in danger by the interference for several months. Investigators used a spy plane to track the signals to Northern Ireland. A detector van then pinpointed the chatter to a used car yard in Ballymena, Co Antrim, last month. They confiscated the phone from the dealer, who was ignorant of the chaos he had caused. Ofcom said: "Illegal cordless phones can range up to 10 miles against 100 metres for legal ones." Legal phones carry a CE mark.
Thanks to David G8OQW for this item
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