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From: whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Remote stereo destruction- truth or fiction?
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.051154.18708@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 91 05:11:54 GMT
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Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
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rcte2q@jetson.uh.edu writes:

>I have heard this story some several sources.... An E.E., who hates loud music,
>builds a device that can cause a stereo system to self destruct. When teens
>pull alongside his car with their subwoofers kickin', all it takes is a push of
>a button, and the sonic pollution is stifled....

>My question is, is this a B.S. urban legend or not?

It could be done, maybe, perhaps, I guess, if you sent a signal of extremely
high amplitude out on the frequency of the station  the kids are listening
to... The speaker's coil would become a coil gun and shoot the cone 40 feet
away...
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