Baby Monitor Picks up 'Far-Out' Signal
Wed Jun 13, 2007 10:54PM EDT
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Any parent who has picked up a neighbor's conversation on a baby monitor will get a kick out of this story. A suburban Chicago mom turned on her video baby monitor after putting her kids to bed one night and saw images broadcast from NASA's International Space station instead of her newborn's crib.
"I put the kids down and put the baby monitor on like I always do, and I saw two people floating in space," Natalie Mylinger told a Fox Chicago reporter. You can see the video clip here.
The explanation from the Johnson Space Center is that the same kind of baby monitor resides in a house nearby where the NASA TV channel is available. Another theory is that a neighbor has a wireless device with the same frequency as the monitor and connected to a TV which gets the NASA channel. Either way, it's an unusual transmission via the nursery.
LINK: Baby Monitor Prefers NASA TV to Baby [Wired Gadget Lab]
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1 Posted by pat2fly on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:01PM EDT Report Abuse
The baby monitor is no doubt picking up ham radio television retransmission of the space shuttle video. A quick Google search revealed that K9MOT radio club at Motorola in Schaumburg IL transmits on 910.25 MHz which is the same frequency band used by the baby monitors. See http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sarex/shutfreq.html Google maps reveals that Palatine Il (the location of the baby monitors) is only 7.4 miles from Schaumburg, well within the local range of the ham radio transmissions. Ham radio TV (ATV) retransmissions of the shuttle downlink video has been done since the first shuttle flights in the '80's.