Re: Disrupter beam

[Michael Murphy <mmurphy@nais.com>]

March edition of C/D had a piece about car makers taking models to the
Voice of America (500K watts) and Voice of God ("hottest" site in the
US) antenna farms to test the effects of RF radiation on the electronics
in the car.  C/D recommends VOA as the "new" place to hang out and see
all the new models.  With the explosion of high freq. (short wave
length) radiation in the air these days, you get the impression a viable
aftermarket exists for shielding a la the old US Gov't Tempest program.
--
MJ Murphy


Elliott Potter wrote:
> 
> I remember a little device that was being tested for police use a while
> back...
> It was a small rocket propelled (?) device that would be mounted at the
> bottom of the front spoiler a la James Bond, and if the police were
> involved in a high speed chase, when they got to a less populated area
> they could launch this thing at the car in front of them.  It would get
> under the engine bay and start letting off horrendous bursts of EMI or
> something that would fry any electronic components (i.e. ECU, ignition
> controls, etc) of the car so it would stall.
> Pretty neat...I wonder if anyone uses these yet?
> --
> Elliott
> 
> Brandon Hull wrote:
> >
> > >my conclusion
> > >is that I must have driven through some kind of force field >that
> > temporarily
> > >disabled the ignition system of the car.
> >
> > Maybe not ludicrous.  Reading C&D or R&T, or something in a barbershop chair
> > not too far back, I remember an article wherein the editor's rental Dodge
> > Caravan refused to start after an overnight in an airport parking lot.  When
> > the tow truck driver saw the car, he said that this happened "all the time"
> > with late model Chryslers, and the Dodge mechanics concurred.  "Something"
> > in the blizzard of radio signals engulfing the car disabled the ignition.
> >
> > Brandon Hull
> > Anyone know a good source for lead foil?