On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Derek Peschel wrote:
> Did he talk about his TV jammer or the first version of Breakout for the
TV jammers were fun toys to build! I'm rumored to have used mine on a
few paper-route customers who wouldn't pay me, who expected free
newspaper delivery. :-)
> The TV jammer was very small and could easily be concealed. He used it to
> train his housemates to adopt wierd poses. He would jam the TV, they would
> attempt to fix it, he would unjam it, then he would jam it again later and
> make them do something more drastic than the last time. It began with his
> housemates hitting the TV, but eventually he had one person sitting on top
> of the TV blocking the screen with his legs!
Didn't everyone build one of these, as well as AM and FM radio
transmitters for their own radio station, as a kid? The circuitry for
a TV jammer is very simple; just requires a few easily made inductors,
an RF transistor, antenna, resistors, caps, variable cap and batteries
(I used two 9V batteries in mine). The whole thing fit on a hand-made
PCB that was about 2" by 2" or less.
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