Tom,
        I believe I know these (Pardon The Quote "scum sucking rat bastards") or at
least there relatives. I live in a small town in rural Southeast Missouri
USA, I have never had anything around my house touched or bothered. However,
about 6 weeks ago, I took my 1999 Dodge 3/4 ton Diesel with 52,xxx miles
("another story to rant about") to the Transmission shop for the 3rd time,
after a complete $3,000 rebuild. (Sorry I got side tracked.)
        The shop wanted me to leave my truck overnight so they could work on it
cold. The next morning I get a call from the Police department. Some one has
broke out the side window, broke all of the dome lights, ripped the dash
out, broke the Shift lever, (It was in there way, while removing the brand
new CD Player) All in all, $1500 damage, plus $500 for the radio, they even
took my leather dress jacket, from the back seat. AND I HAD TO PAY THE
DEDUCTABLE!!!
        The sad thing is that a low power transmitter would not have worked. I am
considering a digital camera, that will take snap shots and store the image
to flash. About one image per 10 seconds, after the alarm has been
activated, till it runs out of memory or until the alarm is reset.
        A JPG 640X480 image is about 40K, an 1megx8 flash is about 25 images, at 10
seconds apart, will be about 4 minutes of pictures. This should be enough to
get at least one good picture.

Gordon Varney
Victim number 3 from the list.


>
> I responded to a question a few days ago about low power rf. Here is what
> I've got.
>
> We were recently visited by scum sucking rat bastards (pardon me, that
> should probably be "juvenile delinquent benevolent society") who
> stole a CD
> player out of my wifes car late at night. I have little interest in
> conventional shrieker car alarms that go on and on and on if you are not
> present to shut them off.  So I bought a wireless doorbell at the local
> hardware store for about $20 US.
>

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