Wagner Lipnharski wrote:

> Howard McGinnis wrote:
> >
> > What about a small PIC with a piezo making noises like a boss cricket -
> > something that says "I'm bigger than you and will have you for dinner if
> > you don't leave my territory"? Could the piezo be monitored like a
> > microphone with a learned threshhold, then switched to transmit mode for
> > the big cricket message, then switched back to monitoring? Maybe a 12C508/9?
>
> You mean, record the crickets noise and play it louderrrrrr???
> He's trying to get rid of them, not getting crazy...... hehe
> just kidding.
> The idea is nice, since reproducing exactly the noise, the male or
> female, I don't know, will ear a sound similar to its gender and
> will go away. But the problem is that it would attract the opposite
> gender... hehe... so you will get a heavy traffic in the backyard,
> probably if you start to charge a small fee to enter in the club,
> they will go away... :)
> Wagner.

put a female caller in one corner of the property & a male in the other.
sound proof to direct cals back into the land.
surround each with a wire / mesh grid  (high voltage )
safety precautions for wire grid.
glen !

if worst comes to the worst mount them in some nearby trees