Call it trivial or childish, I’m ok with it and agree. However, I still want to do it!
I just purchased a portable co2 powered K5LLA for our local football team. We currently have a parent that parks his truck off school property and blares his made in china horns via a remote control. I am allowed to set up my horn on school property and am literally just on the opposite side of the fence as him.
So, I am wanting to figure out how he is remotely controlling his horns and then find a RF jammer that will block his signal. Any thoughts or ideas on how these remote setups are typically done and what frequency the remotes utilize? Thanks in advance for your help!
He’s probably using a car alarm remote to activate his horn. A quality system can give you a fairly good distance. Not sure if you can block something like that.
A car alarm is a good bet. My Python alarm system gives me up to a mile of range between the vehicle and the key fob (reduced by things like buildings, concrete parking garages, etc., of course). I can set the vehicle to activate the horn when the security system activates (I have it off for obvious reasons) and simply ‘lock’ the vehicle for one blast or ‘unlock’ it for two in quick succession. They are, of course, never long blasts.
That begs the question of whether this guy’s horn sounds for different durations. If so, it’s probably not a car alarm he’s using.
Also, I’ve read of people using Warn’s wireless winch remote & receiver to control a solenoid – key to this is that the winch remote and receiver combo is perfect for activating a 12v solenoid for as long as a button on the remote is pressed, since one pushes and holds the button to either spool the winch in/out. I’m only aware of this in passing as a result of winch remote research done prior to installing the same remote for my own Warn winch; it was in some article I came across.
You might need to buy a RF frequency detector for this endeavor. I can see the dollar signs adding up, already: detector, jammer, wiring, remote for jammer, etc., etc. :eek:
you already have a device that will Over power his “Made In China” Horns already. The K5LLA! lol. All we have around here during football games is someone ringing a bell into the PA whenever the home team scores. I can easily over power that with my K5LA
RF jammers are illegal (FCC calls it “malicious interference”) and can result in fines up to $50,000 or more depending on the offense. Besides that, jammers tend to cause problems for other radio devices in a manner that is decidedly unsafe, such as preventing cell phone users from dialing 911. Don’t do it.
Folks on this forum who have train horns on vehicles they drive on public roads are already violating laws pertaining to vehicle equipment. Most states have prohibitions against ‘any vehicle to be equipped with or for any person to use upon a vehicle any siren, compression or spark plug whistle or for any person at any time to use a horn otherwise than as a reasonable warning or to make any unnecessary or unreasonable loud or harsh sound by means of a horn or other warning device.’ (Or similar. :rolleyes:) Followed by exceptions for emergency vehicles and law enforcement, of course…
Thus, this is, by and large, a forum full of rule breakers – meaning Griz probably knows the risks and may elect to take them … or simply doesn’t care.
Sure, I come from a different forum of rulebreakers that is entirely unrelated to this - but I know for a fact that the FCC is one agency that really cares about jammers and enforces the rules against them extremely strictly. Be careful.
There is a huge difference between horning and RF freq hacking since it’s federal.
I have some knowledge on it since I spent some time in Iraq and we used a lot of that, but I’m not going to provide help because I don’t want to deal with the IRL ban hammer.
Certainly, there is – and I never argued otherwise. Griz apparently likes the idea of playing with fire – and that’s his business and/or choice.
And I doubt that you would be subjected to the IRL ban hammer for telling him or others how to make said fire unless the information were classified. After all, provision of non-classified information on the subject of freq hacking isn’t a crime – it’s the use of such information in an unlawful way that’s criminal.
I have a really funny feeling that someone is using one of those here. Every time I go to the park in the middle of town my cell phone completely quits working (And so does my friends) I am on Boost and he is on Version. I asked some guy walking by if his phone worked and his phone did not, and he was with a different carrier. hmmmmm…
