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Re:Simple Homemade TEA Laser (2007) by wpietri on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:05AM (#23091781)
Years ago an engineer friend of mine had an upstairs neighbor who would play the same radio station at high volumes for long periods of the day, often well into the wee hours. Pleas for change had no effect.

So my friend bought and built an FM transmitter kit. He put it in his apartment in the closest spot to the guy's stereo. And then he broadcast beautiful silence on that radio station's frequency. The neighbor tried other stations for a while, but it just wasn't the same.

I wonder if a Bluetooth version of that is possible.

Re:Simple Homemade TEA Laser (2007) by isochronous on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:58AM (#23092519)
Uh, no. Not legally, at least.
Re:Simple Homemade TEA Laser (2007) by wpietri on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @12:08PM (#23092658)
My friend's approach wasn't legal either, so I was more asking about the technical possibility. I know Bluetooth is supposed to be more secure, but I have to wonder if random consumer electronics gear like a speaker really takes that seriously.
Re:Simple Homemade TEA Laser (2007) by VBprogrammer on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:09PM (#23095031)
In a past life I had borderline crazy downstairs neighbours. They would usually wake us up by screaming at one another but on this particular occasion the radio was blasting at a ridiculous level. I actually don't think they home and perhaps it was an alarm set on the radio which had turned it on.

Thankfully after about 30 minutes of my flatmate and I getting really pissed off (it was like in the same room loud, not just a minor annoyance) I remembered that I had an old car FM transmitter for an MP3 player, after borrowing the batteries from the TV remote, cycling through the stations I was overjoyed to discover that one of the stations was close enough to the radio frequency to blot out the station it was tuned to. The reason I think they weren't home is I turned it on and off a few times but they didn't attempt to turn the radio to another channel or anything like that. I went to sleep with it on.

Technically the FM transmitter was legal at that point but using it to deliberately block someone else's radio is almost definitely illegal.