I got robbed the same way a coupla months ago.  To add insult to injury,
they stole my car, drove it to a secluded place, and proceeded to rip out
the CD player.  I recovered the car, sans player.

I considered a lot of security alarms, but so far I have only had tiome to
add a secret kill switch on the starter, so nobody can start it without
knowing where the switch is.  I am going to replace the CD player with a
cheap,cheap radio/casssette player.  I will either fix it so it is very hard
to extract, or very very easy, so they don't tear up my car again.  The more
expensive your radio, the more of a target it is.

I will also hide a nice amplifier inside the dash somewhere, to pump good
sound into the speakers.

I've considered a fake alarm system, an LED that blinks on the dashboard
every ten seconds or so, with an ominous looking box labeled Car ALArm.

--Lawrence


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Varney" <varney@CLAS.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: low power rf application


> 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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