I've dreamed of doing this for a decade, even found some sources in the U.K. to purchase a few and looked up schematics for building wideband jammers.
Ultimately it was the very serious approach the FCC takes that stopped me from really exploring it, even for fun. Everthing I'd read indicated that you'd be caught and fast, so I'm sort of surprised it took two years, even if it was on a highway.
But lord I still might push it whenever I'm at the grocery store and someone's doing a remote, live shopping list with their wife down every aisle.
Why is a husband and wife talking to each other in a grocery store so vexing? Is it only if one is remote, or have you also looked into the ramifications of muzzling fellow shoppers? Is it that you prefer to hear both sides of stranger's conversations?
I ask in a flippant way, just to highlight the incongruence, but I'm sincerely curious.
I think the image here in this person's mind is of someone bumbling around an isle, not looking where they're going (2 people tend to look around more and be more cogniscent of their environment, especially when the sounds they're listening to are coming from the environment (human voice, 3 feet away) and not a small box a few inches away)... and then occasionally yelling, "WHAT?!!?" into the phone when they can't hear.
> Is it that you prefer to hear both sides of stranger's conversations?
Yes. Hearing just one half is irritating, I think because I can't help expending brainpower on filling in the other side. A speakerphone conversation is much less annoying.
Really? Let's just hope nothing happens that requires someone to call 911 around you, finding themselves unable to and having emergency services be delayed.
Indeed. The odds of this happening are exponentially lower than causing a fatal accident by checking your phone in your car, but I appreciate the forced aghast sentiment expressed here.
Actually, it sounds like the FCC moves fast once they know about it.
MetroPCS finally had enough of the interference on April 29, 2013 and informs the FCC. They determined the likely location and started monitoring the route starting May 7. By May 9 they figured out which car it was coming from and coordinated with the local sheriff's office to stop the car, interview the driver, and confiscate the jammer. It was the driver in question that said he'd been using it for two years and dug his own grave so to speak, I don't actually see anything that says they have evidence that he was using it for 24 months beyond what he said (although maybe MetroPCS can back that up).
> But lord I still might push it whenever I'm at the grocery store and someone's doing a remote, live shopping list with their wife down every aisle.
My husband can be hopeless when he's shopping for groceries, go easy on him ;) There's a reason we use Instacart/Google Shopping Express and I'm the one usually shopping otherwise, but I appreciate any of his efforts to help me out.
Ultimately it was the very serious approach the FCC takes that stopped me from really exploring it, even for fun. Everthing I'd read indicated that you'd be caught and fast, so I'm sort of surprised it took two years, even if it was on a highway.
But lord I still might push it whenever I'm at the grocery store and someone's doing a remote, live shopping list with their wife down every aisle.