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Keith
 
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Default weird VHF problem, sunspot?

Another advantage to living on the boat. No Trick or Treaters!

"Capt. Frank Hopkins" wrote in message
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Damn, the wife and I had the same problem. They demanded candy too!

CF

Snafu wrote:

Last night a strange thing happened, in fact it happened again and

again. I
was watching TV and the doorbell would ring. I opened the door and

every
time I did, there was a group of young people there dressed in strange

garb.
They held out bags as they chanted something like "trikortreet". The

only
possible reason for this strange behavior I can come up with is the

recent
solar flare activity.


"basskisser" wrote in message
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"Ron White" wrote in message


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Yesterday my ICOM vhf (which has DSC capability) would suddenly change


to

channel 16 and emit a very loud ambulance siren type sound from the


speaker.

The volume of the sound was not controllable and be canceled by


changeing

channels or pushing the DSC button.This happened quite a few times.


Today I

tested the unit by leaving it on for a good while , checks OK. So could


this

be caused by solar flares?

Interesting, I noticed my digital cable (t.v.) loosing signal some
yesterday. Doesn't usually do that, so who knows?!!