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Story: Scottish hoteliers jam mobiles

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Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 24 March 2006, 1:37 AM)

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Theres a few interesting points to clear up here. First, this nonsense about pacemakers - mobiles dont/cant/wont affect them, in exactly the same way that a mobile cannot cause a petrol station to explode just cos it rings! (its not anywhere near powerful enough or at the same frequency).
its just overkill on the safety of it cos the government employ halfwits as technical advisors (remember the millenium bug?! ha ha). Next, these jammers have indeed been around for AGES. The good ones have selectable frequencies so they dont JUST block mobiles. They are a very simple circuit (not worth the money really, i make them up in about 20 minutes) and they usually simply sweep a signal causing the mobile to become confused and drop the call (or not get connected in the first place).
As regards stopping yobs using them, just napalm all council estates, and shut the SPAR shops down. no yobs left = no problem ;))

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