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This might be off topic, but if you can help I would be grateful.

My neighbours have their TV on until about 3am and the volume loud enough so
that I can hear every word. I was wondering if there is something I could
buy that could interfere with the TV picture or sound but not damage set.
What would be nice would be an effect like when a mobile phone is close to a
monitor or TV.

It has be powerful enough to have a range of about 6ft (2m) and go though
the floor.

I have asked them to lower the volume at midnight but they have ignored my
request.

Thank you for any ideas
 
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:01:26 +0100, "baccy" <boo@doolougrew.com> wrote:

This might be off topic, but if you can help I would be grateful.

My neighbours have their TV on until about 3am and the volume loud enough so
that I can hear every word. I was wondering if there is something I could
buy that could interfere with the TV picture or sound but not damage set.
What would be nice would be an effect like when a mobile phone is close to a
monitor or TV.

It has be powerful enough to have a range of about 6ft (2m) and go though
the floor.

I have asked them to lower the volume at midnight but they have ignored my
request.

Thank you for any ideas
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Try anything like that and you'll just get yourself in trouble.

I'd ask them to turn it down once more and if that didn't work then I'd
complain to the landlord or, better yet, call the law on them.

--
John Fields
 
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:01:26 +0100, "baccy" <boo@doolougrew.com> wrote:

This might be off topic, but if you can help I would be grateful.

My neighbours have their TV on until about 3am and the volume loud enough
so
that I can hear every word. I was wondering if there is something I
could
buy that could interfere with the TV picture or sound but not damage set.
What would be nice would be an effect like when a mobile phone is close
to a
monitor or TV.

It has be powerful enough to have a range of about 6ft (2m) and go though
the floor.

I have asked them to lower the volume at midnight but they have ignored
my
request.

Thank you for any ideas

---
Try anything like that and you'll just get yourself in trouble.

I'd ask them to turn it down once more and if that didn't work then I'd
complain to the landlord or, better yet, call the law on them.

--
John Fields
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Indeed... The sound of the TV will seem insignificant when compared
to the snoring of your cell mate Bubba. ;-)

GtG
 
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:06:45 GMT, "Grog"
<shem_an_na@SPAM_ME_NOThotmail.com> wrote:

Indeed... The sound of the TV will seem insignificant when compared
to the snoring of your cell mate Bubba. ;-)
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---
Not to mention that it would have so much easier to unplug the TV than
it will be to unplug Bubba...

--
John Fields
 
"Grog" <shem_an_na@SPAM_ME_NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
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My neighbours have their TV on until about 3am and the volume loud
enough
so
that I can hear every word. I was wondering if there is something I
could
buy that could interfere with the TV picture or sound but not damage
set.
What would be nice would be an effect like when a mobile phone is close
to a
monitor or TV.
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Why not just learn tap dancing and tap your toes to the beat of the TV theme
songs?
 
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"Grog" <shem_an_na@SPAM_ME_NOThotmail.com> wrote in message
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My neighbours have their TV on until about 3am and the volume loud
enough
so
that I can hear every word. I was wondering if there is something I
could
buy that could interfere with the TV picture or sound but not damage
set.
What would be nice would be an effect like when a mobile phone is
close
to a
monitor or TV.

Why not just learn tap dancing and tap your toes to the beat of the TV
theme
songs?

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---------------------------

Eventhough there have been no ideas of help from this group, your answers
have made me laugh, so thank you for that :eek:)

Baccy
 
John Fields wrote:
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:01:26 +0100, "baccy" <boo@doolougrew.com> wrote:

This might be off topic, but if you can help I would be grateful.

My neighbours have their TV on until about 3am and the volume loud enough so
that I can hear every word. I was wondering if there is something I could
buy that could interfere with the TV picture or sound but not damage set.
What would be nice would be an effect like when a mobile phone is close to a
monitor or TV.

It has be powerful enough to have a range of about 6ft (2m) and go though
the floor.

I have asked them to lower the volume at midnight but they have ignored my
request.

Thank you for any ideas

---
Try anything like that and you'll just get yourself in trouble.

I'd ask them to turn it down once more and if that didn't work then I'd
complain to the landlord or, better yet, call the law on them.

--
John Fields
------------------
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Nonsense, don't do RF, just set up some humongus speakers facing down
on the floor and tape a microphone to the floor, add an amplifier, then
crank them up and let their own sound destroy them a while, they'll
figure it out when the sound below is not only LOUD, but also
phase-wise indecipherable!!

-Steve
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:03:57 +0100, "baccy" <boo@doolougrew.com>
wrote:


Eventhough there have been no ideas of help from this group, your answers
have made me laugh, so thank you for that :eek:)

Baccy
Click to expand...

If they are have cable or satellite and are using "line-in" there's
not much you can do. If they are on an antenna receiving local
broadcasts an old CB radio may be able to knock it out. Just wrap a
rubber band around the mic and silence the bastards. Actually since
you're only a few feet away it may even work if they're on cable. The
legal 4 watt output with a small loaded antenna would do the trick.

When I was in highschool in the mid 80's CB's were still somewhat
popular. We had a lot of fun with fox hunts ect. Of course I had to
out do my friends and eventually built up a killer setup that I would
bring into the house and run on a power supply as a base station.
Modified to 120 channels (360 if you count the SSB), tweaked and
running power I used to flatten every TV in the neighborhood (even
neighbors several doors down with cable!).
After complaints from the irate neighbors my parents made sure that it
stayed in my car :)
I still have the setup....going to have to try it out again one of
these days. Oh but wait...the police might come by and take me away
and put me in prison with drug dealers and murderers...wooooo!
bwahaha!
 
In article <FFPhb.727$9O3.340@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
boo@doolougrew.com mentioned...
This might be off topic, but if you can help I would be grateful.

My neighbours have their TV on until about 3am and the volume loud enough so
that I can hear every word. I was wondering if there is something I could
buy that could interfere with the TV picture or sound but not damage set.
What would be nice would be an effect like when a mobile phone is close to a
monitor or TV.

It has be powerful enough to have a range of about 6ft (2m) and go though
the floor.

I have asked them to lower the volume at midnight but they have ignored my
request.

Thank you for any ideas
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You just build an FM wireless microphone but leave out the microphone
and audio amp stage. In other words, it only requires a single
transistor and a few parts. You have to figure out which channel you
want to block, and adjust the mic for that channel. If you want to
jam more than one channel then build another one. This works well for
the low VHF channels 2 thru 6, and okay for the high VHF channels 7
thru 13. You have to be really proficient with RF construction to get
it to oscillate in the UHF band, channels 14 thru 69. In fact, you
might not do very well at all in the higher channels. The transistor
typically used for the UHFs is the MPS-H10, PN3563, BF199 or similsr
UHF transistor.

If the mic is only a few feet from the TV, it should block the picture
completely, only a black screen should be seen. Do a web search for
FM wireless microphone or go to Harry Lythall's SM0VPO website for
some good examples. Here's the URL for a simple Tx. Leave out the
three transistors on the left and connect the lead going to e of Q3
directly to the + 3 to 9V.

And do not, under any circumstances, tell the FCC agents that knock on
your door that you got any of this info from us here in the
newsgroups. :)


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In article <3f88f4f9.29977806@news.netnitco.net>,
vairxpert@hotmail.com mentioned...
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:03:57 +0100, "baccy" <boo@doolougrew.com
wrote:


Eventhough there have been no ideas of help from this group, your answers
have made me laugh, so thank you for that :eek:)

Baccy


If they are have cable or satellite and are using "line-in" there's
not much you can do. If they are on an antenna receiving local
broadcasts an old CB radio may be able to knock it out. Just wrap a
rubber band around the mic and silence the bastards. Actually since
you're only a few feet away it may even work if they're on cable. The
legal 4 watt output with a small loaded antenna would do the trick.
Click to expand...
Yeah, but do _not_ talk into the mic, or anywhere close to it.
They'll hear who it is, and come after you.

[snip]

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Generally, starting a war with neighbours makes things worse rather than
better. In a house I used to live in (about 15 years back, when I was
just out of school) the upstairs neigbours moved out, to be replaced by
a bunch of transient illegal aliens. (It wasn't the best neighbourhood,
OK?)

One of them bought a Nintendo system, which he insisted on playing at
ear-bleed volume in the small hours of the morning. (He only had one
game, so it was always the same tune.....) I used to fantasize about
going down into the basement and discharging a large, high-voltage
capacitor into his AC line (after turning my AC off, of course). I even
had some suitable capacitors at hand, and of course building a
Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier is pretty easy. I never did it,
because I was worried about starting a fire. As my mum used to say,
"Life is full of little temptations."

My landlord was pretty good about it--he read them the riot act a couple
of times, but he couldn't come every single night. The guys upstairs
couldn't or wouldn't understand that the fact they'd saved up their
money for this game system didn't give them the right to use it any way
they wanted. I suppose they'd never really owned anything much in their
lives. (Then the other neighbours started running a car repair business
in our [shared] parking area.)

I eventually just moved out.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs
 
Phil Hobbs wrote:
Generally, starting a war with neighbours makes things worse rather than
better. In a house I used to live in (about 15 years back, when I was
just out of school) the upstairs neigbours moved out, to be replaced by
a bunch of transient illegal aliens. (It wasn't the best neighbourhood,
OK?)

One of them bought a Nintendo system, which he insisted on playing at
ear-bleed volume in the small hours of the morning. (He only had one
game, so it was always the same tune.....) I used to fantasize about
going down into the basement and discharging a large, high-voltage
capacitor into his AC line (after turning my AC off, of course). I even
had some suitable capacitors at hand, and of course building a
Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier is pretty easy. I never did it,
because I was worried about starting a fire. As my mum used to say,
"Life is full of little temptations."

My landlord was pretty good about it--he read them the riot act a couple
of times, but he couldn't come every single night. The guys upstairs
couldn't or wouldn't understand that the fact they'd saved up their
money for this game system didn't give them the right to use it any way
they wanted. I suppose they'd never really owned anything much in their
lives. (Then the other neighbours started running a car repair business
in our [shared] parking area.)

I eventually just moved out.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs
----------------
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If you had called the police, or sued the landlord for "quiet enjoyment
of the premises" you would have gotten immediate action.

People are such fucking cowards.
Steve
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http://www.armory.com/~rstevew or http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public
 
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:27:42 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com>
wrote:


If you had called the police, or sued the landlord for "quiet enjoyment
of the premises" you would have gotten immediate action.

People are such fucking cowards.
Steve
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HAHA! : )

Promise me, son, not to do the things I’ve done.
Walk away from trouble if you can.
It won’t mean you’re weak if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you’re old enough to understand:
Son, you don’t have to fight to be a man.
 
"cxTurbo" <vairxpert@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:27:42 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com
wrote:


If you had called the police, or sued the landlord for "quiet enjoyment
of the premises" you would have gotten immediate action.

People are such fucking cowards.
Steve

HAHA! : )

Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done.
Walk away from trouble if you can.
It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you're old enough to understand:
Son, you don't have to fight to be a man.
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What everyone has said in here is right. Thats why I've NEVER wanted to
damage their TV,the Cable TV box or anything for that matter, I just wanted
to P them off so much that they would go to bed at a resonable time.

What I have worked out is that due to their late nights they get up late. So
at 8-9am Cypress Hill,Metallica or Ride of the Valkyries is listen to by me
loud and basse. Since they got a taste of their own medicine when they want
to sleep, the TV has got quieter and SURPRISE SURPRISE my music is back to
the a nice low volume.

Thank you again for all your advice, help and hearing me whinge.

Baccy
London
England
 
cxTurbo wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:27:42 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com
wrote:

If you had called the police, or sued the landlord for "quiet enjoyment
of the premises" you would have gotten immediate action.

People are such fucking cowards.
Steve

HAHA! : )

Promise me, son, not to do the things I’ve done.
Walk away from trouble if you can.
It won’t mean you’re weak if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you’re old enough to understand:
Son, you don’t have to fight to be a man.
-------------------------
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Country western nonsense.

Irrelevant, mister macho-ridiculous, why fight when you have the
police on your side and a gun a little girl could kill Arnold with?

Just call the fucking cops for everything, works great if you have
guns too, like I do. People just don't fuck with you after they are
noted in a police report in connection with yours wherein you mention
their threats on your life to the police and that if he decides to
try to harm you you'll shoot him.

It's a little more trouble than most assholes want, but the cops love
it, they drag him off in cuffs and smack him around and he won't want
to ever even HEAR about *YOU* EVER AGAIN, in fact, they USUALLY move
the fuck AWAY!

And the true psychotic will wind up dead from your gun and you can
notch your grip. Ho-hum, guns are fun.

-Steve
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In article <3F8A0E5F.1F30@armory.com>, rstevew@armory.com mentioned...
Phil Hobbs wrote:

Generally, starting a war with neighbours makes things worse rather than
better. In a house I used to live in (about 15 years back, when I was
just out of school) the upstairs neigbours moved out, to be replaced by
a bunch of transient illegal aliens. (It wasn't the best neighbourhood,
OK?)

One of them bought a Nintendo system, which he insisted on playing at
ear-bleed volume in the small hours of the morning. (He only had one
game, so it was always the same tune.....) I used to fantasize about
going down into the basement and discharging a large, high-voltage
capacitor into his AC line (after turning my AC off, of course). I even
had some suitable capacitors at hand, and of course building a
Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier is pretty easy. I never did it,
because I was worried about starting a fire. As my mum used to say,
"Life is full of little temptations."

My landlord was pretty good about it--he read them the riot act a couple
of times, but he couldn't come every single night. The guys upstairs
couldn't or wouldn't understand that the fact they'd saved up their
money for this game system didn't give them the right to use it any way
they wanted. I suppose they'd never really owned anything much in their
lives. (Then the other neighbours started running a car repair business
in our [shared] parking area.)

I eventually just moved out.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs
----------------
If you had called the police, or sued the landlord for "quiet enjoyment
of the premises" you would have gotten immediate action.

People are such fucking cowards.
Steve
Click to expand...
RSW should've been a Jew living in the Gaza Strip. That way, he could
use all those Palestinian gonads he'd collect for balls in his pinball
machine. (SNORK!)


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"R. Steve Walz" wrote:
If you had called the police, or sued the landlord for "quiet enjoyment
of the premises" you would have gotten immediate action.

People are such fucking cowards.
Steve
Click to expand...
Were you thinking of people just brave enough to insult strangers on
Usenet, or other people? We don't all feel a need to start a fight
because somebody looks at our girlfriends.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs
 
RSW should have been a Jew in Hitler's Germany - he'd have stopped
the Third Reich in its tracks.

"Knock Knock."
"Yes?"
"Open Up! SS!"
"Boom!"

They'd eventually run out of SS storm troopers. I wish there were more
people who were willing to fight for what they know is right.

About the noisemakers - I like the OP's solution - fight fire with
fire. But on an electronics note, I've heard that there are
noise-abatement systems in place that consist basically of a mic, an
inverting amp, and a speaker. Its output destructively interferes with
the offending noise, and essentially cancels it out. This is hearsay,
and I don't know how effective they really are, but it's a thought.

I'd like to get some kind of zapper for those damnable boombox trucks!

I wonder where you'd get a supply of stink bombs?

Cheers!
Rich

Watson A.Name - Watt Sun wrote:

People are such fucking cowards.
Steve


RSW should've been a Jew living in the Gaza Strip. That way, he could
use all those Palestinian gonads he'd collect for balls in his pinball
machine. (SNORK!)
Click to expand...
 
In article <qtjmb.792$Px2.91@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
spamdump@aol.com mentioned...
RSW should have been a Jew in Hitler's Germany - he'd have stopped
the Third Reich in its tracks.

"Knock Knock."
"Yes?"
"Open Up! SS!"
"Boom!"

They'd eventually run out of SS storm troopers. I wish there were more
people who were willing to fight for what they know is right.
Click to expand...
Seems the world already has enough people who are willing to fight for
'what they know is right'. Perhpas that's the whole problem.

[snip]

Cheers!
Rich

Watson A.Name - Watt Sun wrote:

People are such fucking cowards.
Steve


RSW should've been a Jew living in the Gaza Strip. That way, he could
use all those Palestinian gonads he'd collect for balls in his pinball
machine. (SNORK!)
Click to expand...

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goes directly to the trash unless you add NOSPAM in the
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Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
that will give you a choice and save you money(up to half).
http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
@@t@h@e@@a@f@f@l@u@e@n@t@@m@e@e@t@@t@h@e@@E@f@f@l@u@e@n@t@@
 
Rich Grise wrote:
RSW should have been a Jew in Hitler's Germany - he'd have stopped
the Third Reich in its tracks.

"Knock Knock."
"Yes?"
"Open Up! SS!"
"Boom!"

They'd eventually run out of SS storm troopers. I wish there were more
people who were willing to fight for what they know is right.
---------------
Click to expand...
Despite the fact that unary action is stupid, since all bullies
come in groups, the thing that best prevents fascism is everyone
having guns.

Hitler was the first leader in semi-modern times to go 'round
collecting all the guns for which info was collected via gun
registration. He KNEW that!


People are such fucking cowards.
Steve


RSW should've been a Jew living in the Gaza Strip. That way, he could
use all those Palestinian gonads he'd collect for balls in his pinball
machine. (SNORK!)
-------------------
Click to expand...
All *I* suggested is that people stop being such fucking cowards and
call their damned police!
Steve
 
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