<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland. On October 2, the 20 year-old college student was visited at his apartment in the small university town by a contingent of local police, civil air patrol and search and rescue personnel. Authorities had expected to find a boat or small plane with a malfunctioning transponder, the usual culprit in such incidents, emitting the 121.5 MHz frequency of the distress signal used internationally.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Van Rossmann said he was told to keep his TV off to avoid paying a $10,000 fine for "willingly broadcasting a false distress signal." To their credit, Toshiba contacted Rossmann and offered to provide him with a replacement set for free, he said.</FONT></P>
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