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From: kenny@world.std.com (Kenneth R Crudup)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Stereo Amplifier Jamming
Message-ID: <1990Sep2.072439.16458@world.std.com>
Date: 2 Sep 90 07:24:39 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 <55577@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
  commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group) writes:
>>>He wound a few turns of heavily insulated wire around the perimeter of 
>>>his living-room ceiling, and connected them in series with a spark gap 
>>>and the secondary of a neon-sign transformer...

>>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.

In article <1990Aug29.125828.2943@hellgate.utah.edu>
  gunderse%croc.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Eric Gundersen) says:
>dito (sic). Just out of curiosity, has anyone been visited by the FCC for
>this kind of activity?

We all know its broadband, but gimme a break with the life-and-death stuff.
Hell, if four or five folks in my building decide to vacuum their floors
together, not only will incoming traffic to Logan land on our heads, but
we won't even be able to call 911, joke that it is anyway.

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