ARLA/CLUSTER: Funeral no Reino Unido interrompido por radiofrequencia

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 Em Portugal são conhecidos alguns casos de instalações sonoras de
serviços religiosos interferidas por radioamadores e CB´s nos seus
QSO´s habituais ou mesmo aquando das chamadas gerais.

João Costa (CT1FBF)

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UK funeral interrupted by RF

We have all heard of RF getting into public address systems, but this
one truly has to take the prize for the unusual.

Amateur Radio Newsline's Cheryl Lasek, K9BIK, has the rather strange details:
Can you imagine being at a funeral service when the sound coming out
of the loud speaker system is suddenly interrupted by airline
stewardess' message to her passengers?

Well it actually happened recently in the United Kingdom when what's
been described as a mysterious voice was heard through a church's
public address system during a funeral service telling passengers on a
plane to prepare for landing.

The story goes this way. Friends and family of Brendan Duffy had
gathered at St Edward's Church in Windsor, Berkshire, to pay their
final respects after the Dublin-born grandfather-of-four died on
August 8th, at age 78. But as his nephew Joe Duffy was reading the
eulogy, everyone was suddenly told to fasten their seat belts and for
the other flight attendants to prepare the aircraft's doors for
landing.

While some might have thought it could have been a sign from the
heavens above a more rational explanation is that the church's
wireless microphone system and the two-way radio system on the
aircraft were on the same frequency. But that would not explain how
the announcement made using a closed loop in-cabin public address
system could get transmitted outside the airplane unless perhaps
someone pushed the wrong button on the flight deck. That said, as we
go to air, the mystery of the RF signal from on-high remains
unexplained.

Joe Duffy is a local radio personality. He told a news reporter that
everyone at the service was looking around and up to heaven, trying to
figure out where the voice was coming from.

Fonte: ARNewsline