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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Stereo Amplifier Jamming
Message-ID: <176@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 90 19:56:13 GMT
References: <55577@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <1990Aug29.162309.25050@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug29.125828.2943@hellgate.utah.edu>
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In article <1990Aug29.125828.2943@hellgate.utah.edu>, gunderse%croc.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Eric Gundersen) writes:
> >Uh, guys, broadband jamming, which is what this is, can easily get
> >someone killed by interfering with emergency communications or aircraft
> >navigation.  It's not a good idea.
> 
> dito. Just out of curiosity, has anyone been visited by the FCC  
> for this kind of activity?

A friend of a friend story.  Circa late 60's.

At a high school near the Great Lakes, they were experimenting with
a tesla coil.  One with a resonant frequency near 500 kHz.  As part
of the experiment they hooked it up to longwire antenna.

500 kHz is a marine distress frequency.  Later that day when
the FCC showed up, they said the Coast Guard had gotten a fix
in 15 seconds or so.

markz@ssc.uucp