>> We had a CBer that gave us a lot of trouble. One night we pit a straight pin through his coax and cut it off flush. That kept him off the air for a while! <<
Yeah, the old "Pin thru the Coax" bit was a whole LOT of fun back in the day... but nowhere near as successful as the Cheap Walkie Talkie bit. You found out what the victim's favorite CB channel was, and got hold of a junker walkie talkie (100 milliwatt) crystaled for it. You'd then glue down the transmit button. Next... cut the leads to the speaker; in cheap, 1960s vintage HTs, the speaker doubled as a mike. Next... you'd cut the positive battery wire, and put a CdS photocell in series with it. Finally, you took off the whip antenna, and replaced it with a similar length of hookup wire. Once your radio was suitably modified, you'd sneak up to his house late at night and plant the rig nearby, preferably within 100 feet of his antenna. Toss it in the bushes with the new wire antenna spread out, and the photocell able to "see" the sky. When the sun came up, the CdS photocell's resistance would drop, raising the battery voltage to the radio and causing it to start transmitting an overpowering dead carrier on the dude's favorite channel. At the same time, the resistance of the conducting cell would also limit current flow to the radio, making the batteries last longer! It usually took a week or more for the batteries to wear out, and even longer than that for the smarter ones to go out and actually FIND the jammer! Mr. T., W9LBB ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
