-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [IP] more on 2 comments on cell phones in the air] Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:02:47 -0800 From: John Markoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Dave, Just a bit of historical background on the commercial aircraft radio interference issue. I think I wrote about this issue for the first time in InfoWorld in 1982. Or was it 1983? I wrote the article, which was titled "Unsafe at Any Altitude?" or something like that, after reading a letter to the editor in Byte Magazine from a concerned pilot. As I recall, the Osborne I had recently been introduced (it fit under an airline seat, more or less, and with some risk, you could put it on the seat tray and use it in flight). The one bit of reporting I remember is that I found a Tandem radio interference engineer who had looked at a running Osborne with some kind of RF spectrum analyzer and had found alarming spikes at various final approach frequencies. The details have long since escaped me, but it made for interesting reporting at the time. best, John Markoff New York Times ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
