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So there I was. 9,500 ft. over Albemarle Sound in NC. Headed toward
Kitty Hawk to meet some people flying up from Myrtle Beach attending the Beach Aero Club yearly meeting. I'm getting flight following from Washington Center and being pushed along with a 50 kt. tailwind (I took a picture of my GPS as proof, 154 kts. groundspeed.) "Podunk airport traffic, bugsmasher 25B ten miles east inbound for landing, any traffic, please advise" "Ha!" I think to myself, "That Center lady is certainly going to tell him a thing or two." "Other-podunk airport traffic, happy 94J, left base, runway zero four." Hmmm... What's going on... "podunk... podunk... podunk... ... ..." It's now so bad that I can't clearly hear what the Center controller is saying. It's at times like these that they usually want me to switch transponder code for no known reason... "Washington Center, 25Q, I'm receiving a lot of 0 on this frequency, I need to cancel flight following." Actually, I had to say it about three times as it was very busy. She finally said something that I couldn't understand except the last words, "... good luck." Now my powers of diagnosis are put to the test. I set the other radio to the Center freq and listen to that. No change. Still chatter from everywhere. I switch to transmit on that. I change the standby freqs. I shut off one radio. Still I hear voices. Finally, I turn off the intercom (radios are still on). "Podunk..." This isn't supposed to happen. I can bypass the intercom, but I really should need to plug into the bypass jacks... What is going on? I turn off both radios. ".... podunk ... podunk ... PODUNK!!!!" (did I say the voices were loud?) The whole panel is dark. The hair on my neck is starting to stand up. There's only one thing left to try... I turn off my iPod that's plugged into the headset (not "Ride of the Valkyries", but Amy LaVere)... silence. Wow. Cool. Plug back in, "podunk..." Somehow the combination of iPod, wire and LightSpeed 30-3G was acting as a radio (a very crisp, loud radio) picking up multiple frequencies at once. I wish I had written down all the airport names so I could see how many I was hearing, but it was quite the cacophony. I called LightSpeed and the guy there had never had that reported before. I said I'd post to a newsgroup to solicit other reports. Anyone? -- Don Poitras |
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