CB radio hobbyist Jon Greener recently stumbled upon a weapon in a local war over control of the airwaves.Read the rest:
The device was buried at the foot of a tall pine tree in the forest south of Twain Harte. A long cable stretched from the homemade contraption to the tree’s snow-laden upper branches, where a camouflaged Citizens’ Band radio antenna dangled from a metal hook.
“Most people would think this was a bomb,” said Greener, 60, as he brushed aside some dirt and loaded the bizarre box into the back of his 1971 Dodge Tradesman van.
The crude device was comprised of a curious metal box of knobs and a Christmas light timer fastened to the top of a car battery with duct tape. It was spray-painted green, and a 50-foot-long coaxial cable was connected to the end of a 6-foot-tall truck antenna.
“When this thing turns on, you can’t hear anybody,” Greener said as he fiddled with the knobs on the disabled transmitter.
It was a “jammer,” and it was planted in the forest by a saboteur whose goal was to interrupt CB traffic between Sonora and Twain Harte, Greener said.
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/20110429103424/News/Local-News/CB-radio-remains-one-of-the-last-lawless-frontiers-in-the-Mother-Lode
Oh, radio, you do make me laugh. What is it about this hobby that makes us all a little crazy? Or did we start out crazy and gravitate toward the only hobby that would tolerate us?
ReplyDeleteyawn.. jam this article up the trash can it is non-sense even if that magic box had some massive amp cooking away a mystery power source it could never "jam" the band byond producing a highly annoying noise. Cell phones however.. can be disabled in wide areas with such a device. not legal to do of course.
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