News-Related Musing (Flight 370 Black Boxes)

2014-04-13 Thread Doug Elrod
With all the talk about the batteries running down, perhaps they need a "Black Box" which just sits there *listening* for some sort of probe signal, before responding with a black-box ping. I imagine that the listening-function would take much less energy than actually generating pings. This wo

Re: News-Related Musing (Flight 370 Black Boxes)

2014-04-13 Thread Alan Hamilton
There are a couple strikes against it. Even considering the much more powerful pings a ship could emit, the black box would need a fairly sophisticated amplifier and audio processor to separate the pings from the general ocean noise. This very likely would use more power, not less. It also int

Re: News-Related Musing (Flight 370 Black Boxes)

2014-04-14 Thread Steven Otte
So WHY don't they just make the AIRPLANE out of the BLACK BOX?   -- Steven Otte steveno...@att.net From: Doug Elrod To: wnndl@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 1:43 PM Subject: News-Related Musing (Flight 370 Black Boxes) With all the