There are also dual aircraft VHF transceivers and multiple, multi-channel scanning transceivers for communications. Additionally, the system can also receive audio/video signals for editing or re-broadcast and can even relay a signal from another ground unit to another or back to the station.įor electronic newsgathering and communications, Chopper 8 has scanners and receivers to monitor fire, police and emergency radio transmissions. This system automatically tracks the Channel 8 receiver antennas no matter where the helicopter flies. Normally, all flight activities are recorded and more than two-dozen hours worth of videotape is carried onboard at all times.įor broadcasting the airborne images it captures, Chopper 8 uses a multi-mode, GPS guided, microwave transmission system. The custom-built audio/video control and switcher panels gives the onboard Reporter/Camera Operator the ability to choose from a dozen or more video and audio sources for monitoring and broadcast.Ĭhopper 8 also is equipped with dual digital video tape recorder decks. Exterior mounted “Tail-Cams” give unique views of Chopper 8 while airborne and flying towards a news scene. With this camera, normal size 8″ X 16” street signs can be read from up to 2,000 feet away.Īdditional equipment aboard Chopper 8 includes onboard “Cockpit-Cams” for live reports and internal views as well as production fill lights for illuminating the reporter.
This powerful camera provides steady, close-up video. The heart of Chopper 8 is the 90-pound FLIR Systems Ultramedia III gyro-stabilized camera system.
Packed with almost 700 pounds of broadcast equipment, it is a self-contained television studio. The helicopter is a Bell 206 元 Long Ranger capable of speeds of up to 120 mph and gives Channel 8 the ability to provide both live video and news reports over any news scene, day or night. “Chopper 8″ is WTNH Channel 8’s flying mobile newsroom. I do not think there are too many people in this world that would have done what you did by calling me,” ending the note, “I will be forever grateful.To view Chopper 8’s official info page on WTNH-TV’s website, click here. She was overwhelmed with the family’s good deed and wrote a note saying, “I cannot thank you enough for your honesty and integrity. When they arrived, Patty refunded the $150 purchase price of the desk and also insisted that the rabbi accept reward money. Rabbi Noah, a father of four young children and also a ninth grade Rabbi at the Yeshiva of New Haven, brought his entire family along when he returned the money, believing it was an opportunity to teach his kids a lesson about honesty and truth. She assumed that the money was somewhere else in her home when she couldn’t locate it and sold the desk never thinking it still contained her nest egg. oh my God." reported that Patty knew she stored the money she inherited, in the desk, but she was unable to find it when it fell behind the desk’s filing drawer. The original owner, identified only as “Patty,” was speechless on the other end of the phone only able to say, "Ohmy gosh, because I. So Rabbi Noah called her and explained his find. The Muroffs knew that the money belonged to the original desk owner, who said that she bought the furniture from Staples and assembled it herself. We count it up and there's $98,000 cash sitting in the bag…Right away my wife and I sort of you know looked at each other and said, ‘We can't keep this money.’"
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He continued, "We open it up and it's full of cash. And in that bag, I could already see through the bag, there’s it looks like a hundred dollar bill,” said Rabbi Noah. "Behind the drawers there is this plastic bag, like a shopping, I’m talking about. So they unscrewed the desktop and noticed something unusual. Rabbi Noah told WTNH News 8 that when he got the piece of office furniture home, "The desk didn’t fit into this office by fraction of an inch.” He and his wife attempted to take the hinges off his office door, but that didn’t help. New Haven, Connecticut Rabbi Noah Muroff bought a desk he found listed on Craigslist and ended up discovering a bag filled $98,000 cash stuffed inside the purchase.
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