As mentioned a few months back, something strange is going on with Qantas planes and WA, and it's happening again:
Dave.
As mentioned a few months back, something strange is going on with Qantas planes and WA, and it's happening again:
Dave.
If the HEH base is the cause, then them thar Airbussen must be particularly sensitive. All sorts of aircraft use Learmonth on a regular (and irregular) basis without having these hiccups.
"David L. Jerkoff"
** Must be another " Bermuda Triangle" type of thing.Maybe we ought to call it the " Carnarvon Pentangle " or some such.
The HMAS Sydney went done there, with all hands, back in 1941,
you know .....
..... Phil
Perhaps you might try personal exploration in person philthy , we hope you don't return you kiddie fiddler
What's the HEH base ? And have these incidents been in its vicinity ?
Graham
A Yanky submarine comms base:
Dave.
Giant octopus, aliens, or those pesky Krauts you think?
BTW, the memorial is nice:
Dave.
Having lived in Carnarvon, I can believe anything of the place. After all that is where Wilson Tuckey got his start in politics.
Keith
US NavComSta Harold E Holt.
The latest incident was cited by ATSB's release
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Where's Tom Moffat when you need him. He was pretty good at coming up with theories on these things (IE: HAARP transmissions article in the late EA.)
Sadly, he's gone:
Dave.
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Thanks. I did find it eventually by using google.com.au.
I'm intruiged though. It's low frequency. 30kHz IIRC. I wouldn't normally expect that to upset computer systems. The wavelength's too long. And I'd expect the airframe to be a good EMC shield at that frequency. But you never know. Hmmm ... how much of the A330 body is composites instead of aluminium alloy ?
Graham
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You mean the antenna's nowhere near the base ?
Graham
Add to that the fact that the radiation resistance of the antennas at those stations is very low indeed, despite their large size. The HEH Tx is about
1MW but the actual far field radiation is only a few percent of that, ie. a few 10s of KW. That makes it no more powerful, effectively, than a normal broadcast station.
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The antenna array is adjacent the base (at Exmouth), which is ~40km from Learmonth.
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The Exmouth base transmits at Very Low Frequencies. Only an uneducated or uninformed person would believe it could interfere with a planes controls.
It beggars belief that even the most poorly trained designer would leave an aircraft's controls susceptible to radio fields when we have so many of them, natural (eg lightning) and unnatural (such as the various facilities discussed). The news media will now utter the usual pseudo-science that does so much harm -- eg 'lightning never strikes the same place twice' or 'magnets in blankets proven to cure rheumatism'!
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Not necessarily the case. Shielding of the electronics by the aircraft skin and frame will be less effective at VLF frequencies, so while I am rather sceptical that HEH is the trigger (more on the basis of distance and power levels) I would never say never.
Besides, we also have to look at the "French factor". Remember the air show crash (different Airbus model) where the software decided to land when the pilot clearly had other plans for his day? Some say French logic is an oxymoron.
Ad an experienced person would be having a quiet chuckle at your post. Could you tell me the location of the big hangar where they test all aircraft for exposure to various EMF? We should be able to see it on google earth.
Does it? Modern management technique is to regard any employee as "hire tools" and take the lowest price. It is exactly the scenario that can lead to susceptible equipment.
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