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From: jmasters@pcocd2.intel.com (Justin Masters )
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Car electronics projects
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Date: 26 Jul 89 04:12:59 GMT
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In article <20679@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
+In article <1170@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> greg@sj.ate.slb.com (Greg Wageman) writes:
+>
+>Here's one answer I've thought about building: a scrolling LED
+>character display (like those advertising displays in the woodgrain
+>box you see in some stores) which takes voice input from the driver
+>and displays messages out the rear window.
+
+How about an FM transmitter for those occasions when some is blasting music
+out their windows at outrageous sound levels.  I used this once against an
+obnoxious neighbor when I lived in an apartment.
+
+You just sweep across the band until you hear sort of a thud.  That means
+you've crossed the frequency of the receiver.  Then you back up, thudding
+a few more times, until you home in on the frequency.  If you just sit on
+that frequency, the sound goes dead.  If you use an FM wireless mike, you
+can say things.  (I never said things, my unit only transmitted an unmodulated
+signal.)

Hey, when those funky boys be a blastin' down the street, they usually be
playin' a tape.  Aint that right, son?

THUMP THUMP thump THUMP THUMP

(rotten english and lousy beat is added for no reason. Same reason they play
it, right?)




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