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From: gordon@uw-june (Gordon Davisson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Stereo Bombardment: Message from the Bunker
Message-ID: <235@uw-june>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 07:09:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 07:09:39 1985
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In article <799@udenva.UUCP> awinterb@udenva.UUCP (Art Winterbauer) writes:
>>Has anybody developed an effective method of "reverse harassment" to
>>deal with those airheads who infest apartments and who enjoy letting
>>everyone within earshot have the benefit of their stereos?  

In article <567@calmasd.UUCP> gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan) writes:
>If your neighbors listen to the radio, a simple Radio Frequency
>generator (relatively cheap and easy to find at surplus places)
>can make their radio unlistenable.  Of course, you will spend
>some time tuning it, but that can be a lot of fun if you have
>a bit of a mean streak.

Some friends and I recently considered a similar problem (people with
ghetto blasters on streets, in busses and stores, etc.) and came up
with a very similar solution: a small (pocket-sized) device which
scans the AM and FM bands, transmitting some easily recognizable signal.
When it hears (on its mike, of course) its own signal being played back,
it locks onto the frequency, and starts transmitting something offensive
even to the cretin carrying the boom box.  A simple versions might just
send static, and more advenced versions have cassette players, so you
can send whatever you like: bad C&W music (hey, neat!  A tautological
oxymoron! (which is itself an oxymoron, of course)), a tape of Mr. Rogers
(can you say 'embarrassing'?  I knew you could!), or... hey, anyone know
where I can get a recording of 'War of the Worlds'?

Anyway, the big advantage of this is that any moron can work it (just
flip the 'on' switch, and it goes to it), which makes it ideal for mass
marketing.  Sure, it's illegal, but when's that ever stopped anyone?

So: someone out there start making these, and don't forget to pay me lots
of royalties.

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