Posted on 05/05/2019 10:34:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Perhaps the day has passed when the local Ham Radio club would track down the interference just for the practice and then hold a barbecue.
Had a neighbor a long while ago who had a very powerful CB radio attached to a large mast on the wall of his home. It was so powerful that I could clearly hear him on my TV, radio, my telephone, and probably my toaster. I didn’t really care except for the evening when I got home from work and wanted to watch some TV.
I went next door to ask him to ease off his radio in the evening and he was very cordial and agreed.
I got back in the house and turned on my set and he was telling the world that “my neighbor asked me to stop transmitting so he can watch TV - I guess I’ll talk all night long”.
You know, of course, this means war.
I built a high-pitched squealer on Channel 21 and every time he was on, I’d fire up the squealer.
He went nuts. He tried everything to find the source, but I’d shut it off when he came out of the house and tried to locate it.
3 things happened: a trucker came to his house and punched him for grossing his wife out with of his obscenities on air.
The FCC showed up and took his radio and made him take his mast down.
I got back to watching TV.
I had a set of Altec Lansing PC speakers. They were in the inside room corner, and I’d occasional get such interruptions, even when the speakers were “off”.
Tech support told me that they had “active” circuitry, and if it was a problem, take them back.
(I had to retire them when they developed a constant buzz, even “off”)
A retire AF tech told me that they’d switch on then off stuff in aircraft for maintenance purposes, without following procedures to “not broadcast” and disrupt nearby civilian stuff because it was quicker.
Yup, possibly faulty hardware. During the CB crazed seventies, I knew a family who boosted the signal strength on all their hw. The girl I was friendly with had a unit in her car that was extra-strong, and leaked signal.
She could transmit to the PA system of the local Marine Reserve base whenever sho drove by. Her voice could be heard from the street. It was a transport company, and she had a sexy voice, so the guys loved it.
The Marine boss found out who was talking to them, of course, and just told her to not disrupt things during drill-time.
That’s exactly what happened on the carrier.
A combat systems engineer was behind schedule.
Did they also disable the guy using the device?
Years ago, when a neighbor would get on his ham radio, our tv changed channels.
Yep. I had one which took me a while to figure out the problem and replace xmitter/receiver.
The experiments were moved to the Lawrence Livermore Labs facility in the hills of western San Joaquin County where they eventually caused cars with electronic ignitions in the far right southbound lanes of I-5 to stall. That ended the experiments.
English isn't Latin. Latin infinitives are one word — impossible to split. That observation, led some pointy-headed grammarians to erroneously deduce that English infinitives should not be split either. However, English is not Latin —it's not even a Romance language. It's possible to effortlessly split English infinitives, because they're composed of two words. Therefore, feel free to boldly split infinitives, where no man has done so before.
In the ‘80s I met a guy who flew AWACS planes.
He said they found out that sometimes when they flew over neighborhoods garage doors all over the place would start going up and down.
Had a customer years ago who’s ceiling fan and light would turn on in the middle of the night and wake him up. I asked him what time the neighbor came home from work and sure enough it was the same time this was happening. Garage door opener was on the same frequency so a quick change on the fan controls and bingo - problem solved.
Obviously old technology. Remember the first cordless phones?
People would drive through a neighborhood with a cordless, listening for dial-tone to make their long distance calls, or 976 numbers.
That’s funny — driving through a neighborhood to find a dial tone. I don’t remember that.
I am computer illiterate, but I got nothing from your post, Ben.
Probably something I am doing wrong.
No, USFriend, I shall NOT split an infinitive.
The nuns told me never to do that.
Ya know, when I sent this post, I said to a friend, someone will reply with a lengthy explanation of why I am wrong.
I appreciate your trying to dissuade me, but NO splits.
My background is closer to Latin and Romance anyway, so others with same might feel the same.
I think I read about dial tone theft in an article about the then next-gen cordlesses with handset/base “pairing” to avoid problems broadcasting an open signal to the world.
Your comment is on point. It is not trivial. Proofreading and correct use of grammar are now lost arts, leaving significant amounts of evidence of Intellectual Laziness.
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