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Unidentified Noise Keeping Suitland Residents Up at Night (Washington, DC)
NBCwashington ^ | 7-31-21 | Darcy Spencer

Posted on 08/01/2021 6:58:03 PM PDT by dynachrome

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To: dynachrome

last year fireworks this year sirens?

put up some of those gunshot detector thingies and vector in on it


41 posted on 08/02/2021 12:18:42 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I lived in Takoma Park during that time - I remember that.


42 posted on 08/02/2021 12:23:04 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: dynachrome

Easily tracked to the source with triangulation technology. A few tweaks to the code on these systems would do it.


43 posted on 08/02/2021 12:29:02 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: brianl703

Interesting theory. Why only at night?


44 posted on 08/02/2021 12:30:13 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

oops forgot link:

https://www.eff.org/pages/gunshot-detection


45 posted on 08/02/2021 12:32:29 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Tijeras_Slim

The Rockville siren was one of those huge sirens power by a Dodge Red Ram hemi. It was mounted on a tower adjacent to the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department. Your could hear it as far away as Gaithersburg.


46 posted on 08/02/2021 2:59:23 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: dynachrome

Suitland, MD is where the US Census Bureau is headquartered along with some other nondescript government buildings circled by razor wire-topped fences and manned by armed security.

I was very familiar with the area about a year ago, and driving down parts of the main drag made me think I was in a third world country. The blacks with whom I worked would regularly warn me not to be on the streets after dark, and the DC metro green line station on the Census Bureau property made me feel very uncomfortable.

This doesn’t surprise me all that much.


47 posted on 08/02/2021 3:41:35 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: mad_as_he$$

I read somewhere else that it happens during the day, too.


48 posted on 08/02/2021 4:43:10 AM PDT by brianl703
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To: mad_as_he$$

Exactly... Sound is a directional wave like RF that can be “triangulated”. With a thermos full of coffee, an empty paper towel roll to the ear (directional antenna), a map, and one night shift it would be easy to track down and prove the source. Is everyone waiting for someone else to do it? Or they just don’t know how? They need to put a HAM radio operator on the job, the HAM police are scary GOOD at triangulating TX sources.


49 posted on 08/02/2021 4:54:37 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: brianl703

The OP seems to be focused on the night - probably because it is the most sensational.


50 posted on 08/02/2021 7:48:38 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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During the day it probably just blends in with the rest of the noise.


51 posted on 08/02/2021 9:48:43 AM PDT by brianl703
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To: dynachrome

Bumper sticker: “God is back, and BOY, is He mad!”


52 posted on 08/02/2021 4:43:45 PM PDT by Oatka
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