Throughout history the practice of jamming radio signals has been a political weapon of one country against another. But legal and peaceful jamming is being introduced in North America by ME.
Right now I send programming on three AM channels, and will soon open a fourth frequency for testing inddor AM antennas.
But in this area there will still be about three more unused frequencies, and I want to claim them all.
One of them is 1060kHz, very open day and night, and I think I might send a 24-hour buzz-saw actually recorded down in the workshop, which will not interfere with anyone because it's an open channel!
What I'm suggesting may seem absurd, but the transmitter makers will understand and hope to be the one to provide the needed equipment.
You might ask, what is the purpose of a jamming station that does not block someone else's signal? Well, if you're that worried about it I'll put on another station at 1060kHz and block my own station! It'll be legal and serve the cause of peace.
Above all it will contribute to the growth of Part 15 Radio in America.
We already have this, it is called IBOC.
Neil
Why don't you make a cellphone jammer instead? Something that would prevent any cellphones calls or texting within 100 feet of me would be great.
I don't think part 15 low power radio is allowed on cellphone frequencies, and cell phone jamming is legally complicated according to this clip from Wikipedia:
- United States: Cell phone blocking devices are used by federal officials under certain circumstances.[citation needed] Privacy rights of property owners may affect the policy and application of law within buildings[citation needed]. The FCC may issue a permit that waives the law for private use. For radio communications, it is illegal to operate, manufacture, import, or offer for sale, including advertising (Communications Act of 1934).[11] Blocking radio communications in public can carry fines of up to $112,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.[12] The Homeland Security Act of 2002 may override the Communications Act of 1934.[13]
It does appear that blocking cell calls on private property may be legally possible.For the interesting story of the subject link here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_jammer
When we were kids tuning shortwave
radios in the very early days, we
would hear jammers on HF that sounded like
propeller airplanes. We thought somebody
was flying a plane with a transmitting
microphone stuck in the "on" position.
Bruce, The Dog Radio Group
Using various noises for jamming is an interesting idea, as per Bruce's propeller airplane.
Dogs barking for hours might be good. I have a recording of a snarling cat that is guaranteed to make neighborhood dogs go insane, when I was a teenager my mother ordered me to stop playing the cat out the back window.
False distress calls might cross the line and I think are expressly forbidden in the rules, so you wouldn't want voices saying, "Help, we are trapped inside a shipping crate somewhere in a railroad yard" ......."train goes by.....truck drives away."
Are y'all sure about the "jamming" signal? I was told many years ago the airplane sound is high speed TTY.