Re: Disrupter beam

[Sean Barry <nscbarry@mail.msy.bellsouth.net>]

RF/EMI anti electronic weapons or interference are not the stuff of imagination.
I recently saw on TV, don't recall the program, a demonstration of a homemade
version of a RF weapon. The unit produced something like 100,000,000 watts of
interference, demonstrations included shutting down of several PCs, at least one
of which burst into flame. Also demonstrated was the effects on automobiles, one
of which was a corvette which when not running basically went berserk, locking/
unlocking doors, alarm going on and off, windows up/down etc. But when running
the LED dash flickered lots, idle became very erratic, and finally the car
killed.
Also the problems of range/ targeting were mentioned because apparently the
effects are most effective using line of site. Another thing mentioned was that
apparently some time back before the end of the cold war Russia used some sort
of EMI/RF weapon to start a fire in the US embassy in Moscow in order to gain
entry to the building to plant bugs.

So it seems logical that the amount of RF around an airport might have similar
effects upon certain susceptible systems.

Sean 96 A6q

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?