Electronic warfare is all well and good but remember, if you interfere with the chaps pacemaker, trip his mains breakers and stop his kidney machine, or the ventilator that's keeping his 90 year old mother alive, your be in deep poo...=20 There was a case in the UK a few years back where one guy was playing loud music late at night (he used to work shifts). So, the other neighbour started to leave his hi-fi on full blast when he went to work during the day so that the night shift guy couldn't get any sleep. The night shift guy got so stressed that he had a heart attack and died. The day shift guy was arrested for man slaughter..... -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Lile [mailto:llile@TOASTMASTER.COM] Sent: 24 May 2002 19:41 To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: [PIC]: Electronic Warfare - Solution Russell, I hope the statute of limitations has run out when the FCC finds out about this! ;-) Lawrence ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell McMahon" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [PIC]: Electronic Warfare - Solution > This is a true story. Many years ago I had a friend with just this problem. > A neighbour in a unit separated only by a wall would play his sound system > very very loud in the early hours of the morning (eg 2am - 3am). > > At that stage amongst my junk I had an RF Plastic Welder. 27 MHz ISM band. > Possibly several kilowatts output. > > We placed the welder under the stairs against the internal common wall. > Taped a 27 MHz 1/4 wave whip on the wall. > Loaded the welder into the whip as best we could. > > Left filaments on and with a switch in HT so you could operate instantly. > > 3am. Loud music. Bleary eyed friend stumbles down stairs and presses button. > Loud humming buzzing and other noises from next apartment. After a small > while the sound system was turned off. The problem stopped very shortly > after this but I'm not sure how much the welder had to do with it. > > Interestingly, the affect on a TV in my friends apartment was relatively > minimal - distinct diagonal bars but picture still viewable. > > > > Russell McMahon > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body