Kids TV ariel interfered with aircraft
28.10.09
A TV ariel signal booster belonging to a Bedfordshire boy has been interfering with aircraft, the BBC reports. The aerial on 12-year-old Nicky Chamberlain's bedroom TV was found to be disrupting communications between pilots and air traffic control at Luton airport.
Communications regulator Ofcom traced the problem to the home in Knaves Hill, Linslade, 18 miles from the airport. Nicky's dad, Dave Chamberlain told the BBC : ‘I came home to find an Ofcom engineer parked outside the house. It was bizarre. I had never heard of anything like it. '
'Nicky had the booster for a couple of years and there had been no problem. Recently they changed the flight-path and that must have caused the problem with pilots talking to the airport. We will get him a new aerial that does not interfere with passing planes!’
A spokesperson for Ofcom said: ‘It is not common for something like this to happen. We have field engineers who go around the country investigating for radio interference. In this case the faulty aerial booster was found to be interfering with the pilot's radio.’
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