Foo - My neighbor is a very loud radio. Is my solution legal?

Well overall my neighborhood is nice, typically very quiet. Except this one house, which has always been a rental. The landlord has bad judgement of character, the people who move in always are the 'sketchy' type. Now these new people crank the radio so loud, I am probably 500ft away and can hear it almost clearly. Also, they love the Bass. My solution is to create a radio jammer. I've got a friend who has made one, which works well. My question is, is this legal?

why not just over and talk to them? they might be nice and turn it down.

if that fails, then seek alternative methods.......like your radio jammer, which I might add sounds illegal :)

also what happens if they start listening to cd's/mp3 player's?

what are the noise laws in your area?

I hear you though, I find loud music annoying as well.

Well overall my neighborhood is nice, typically very quiet. Except this one house, which has always been a rental. The landlord has bad judgement of character, the people who move in always are the 'sketchy' type. Now these new people crank the radio so loud, I am probably 500ft away and can hear it almost clearly. Also, they love the Bass. My solution is to create a radio jammer. I've got a friend who has made one, which works well. My question is, is this legal?

Catch is the jammer would jam everyone else's radio in the neighborhood as well, unless you could make it limited enough in range to only block one house's reception.

I suspect the FCC might want to have some words with you if you used a jammer also.

I say jam it!! No one will probably know it was you. Haha you should make a video of when you turn it on, and how it affects their radio.

Please send me some info on how to make one for my neighbors from hell who are five houses away. Sometimes I can hear their music inside my house with the windows closed. (And yes, I have spoken to them....)

radio jammer can land you in federal PMITA prison.

you are jamming the emergency alert system radio network
if you use it, which is a federal offense, and pretty damn
stupid to jam. use your HEAD

your neigbor is a radio? that's pretty cool, actually.

but a jammer is a very bad idea, legally.

some suggestions:

1. call the cops
2. get your other neigbors to call the cops
3. call the landlord
4. get your other neigbors to call the landlord
5. get someone to "accidentally" backhoe up their power lines (if buried lines)
6. directional EMP generator

hatchet to the knees?

Sorry 2 hours sleep last night because of loud ignorant neighbours...freaking chopping wood at 1am...arg

I love my music loud, as well as the bass, but I try not to bother anyone else with it. No complaints so far, but my house is pretty solid and I don't blast my tunes out the windows or anything. Sounds like a definite case of "Disturbing the peace." up your way, pc2. They should, at least, get cited for it if you call the authorities. Try using the system first, I say. If that doesn't work, try your idea, I guess...on the down low, of course.;)


hatchet to the knees?

Sorry 2 hours sleep last night because of loud ignorant neighbours...freaking chopping wood at 1am...arg
What the **** is wrong with people? Eh, I find myself asking that way too often, lately....

Well, it may not be legal, but it sure sounds appealing.

When you can hear some one's stereo clearly 500 feet away it's kind of subserviant to go and tell them it's too loud. They don't know?!?!?!

(Maybe you could show up at their door with fake blood bleeding out your ear?)

Anyway, I try to cut people some slack if like on a holiday weekend they are having friends over and for celebrations and revelry.

However, if it is a case of loud music on a frequent basis and at all hours of the day, that's a problem.

Now that you have announced your plans to break the law (Bin Laden), go right ahead...

It's definitely illegal now. Oh, and I'm sure they don't have a cd player.;)

Okay well its a holiday weekend, I'm just planning for the future. If I really wanted to go all out, I would wrap wire around a tree to make a super antenna. You use a variable capacitor to adjust the frequency of which you are trasmitting at. I could replace their rap with NPR :).

But as fun as this sounds, I dont think I will. The CD player would be an issue, just put an electromagnet next to the speakers :).

It's called calling the cops.

It's called calling the cops.
If the cops there are like the cops here, they'll "take a report", and not much anything else will be done about it.

ever tried no being so sneaky and just deal with it in a mature way and try 'talking' ????

ever tried no being so sneaky and just deal with it in a mature way and try 'talking' ????
what fun would that be? :D

A simple and decently effective soulution is to rig up a system that produces the exact opposite sound. A deep sound and a high pitched sound that are exact opposites of each other will muffle each other quite well. When we did it in science class we had 2 amps facing each other, and obviously this is not as ideal of a set up for this technique, but it could still work.

Before asking them to turn it down, go over and talk to them and get a feel for their character. If they're just having a party, no big deal, but if they're just consistant loud idiots, they might do something stupid later if you ever call the police to complain, cause they'll know its you since you were over earlier asking them to turn it down.


Ahh, back in my old apartment, I lived with two other kids, and one would always be up late watching tv really loud, every night. I'd ask him to turn it down, he would, sometimes turning if off, only to come back later with it really loud again. So, after a number of times, I found out that the circuit the tv is on is the same as an outlet in my room. So, if he had the tv really loud late at night, I'd just short the circuit out and since we still had fuses in that place, he couldn't turn the tv back on until he got more, So who's the bigger a-hole? Probably me, but I needed sleep and he was being really inconsiderate (not to mention constantly filling the sink with his and my stuff). Funny when he asked me to move in with him to another place last year, I just politely declined...

3 words:

Point
Blank
EMP

one treatment stops it all. Oh, and the FCC would probably still want a few words with you, but oh well...EMP their phones on the way out...that will teach em.

So who's the bigger a-hole? Probably me

No doubts about that.

No doubts about that.

Well, if you had to live with it day in and day out...

simple solution, go over and tell them im going to be nice but your music really bothers me, may you please turn it down. if they dont do it and like curse at you just pull out u gun and say im going to say this one more time, would yo umind turning the music down

yo, u have a icthy trigger finger

yo, u have a itchy trigger finger

yo, u have a icthy trigger finger

yo, u have a itchy trigger finger


Ya ever stop to think he was joking hehe?:D

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I've never ahd the problem with it being 500 feet away. But have had problems in apartments.

Usually not a big deal until I wanted to sleep. I would turn mine up to the point I couldn't hear theirs. this would go back an forth for a while until they ran out of volume. hehe

Brainstorming--

Sometimes public shaming works well: create a large banner, hang it on your property, next to the road:
"My inconsiderate neighbors -->
refuse to keep noise down to a peaceful level!"
Take it to the next stage with serial roadside signs (compose a rhyming insult).

Write letters to the editor of the local paper; you don't have to state who the offenders are, as everybody will figure it out by seeing your name and address. You might send follow-up letters noting that the police refuse to help. In a third letter, publicly plead for the town council or mayor to intervene.

Maybe get a directional speaker, and project something repulsive (such as rap "music," or a Jerry Springer festival) toward their bedroom all day and night.

Set up a henhouse with a few roosters near the property line.

If it's not prohibited, set up a rocket testing range, and shoot off exploding shells every night or early morning. Or shoot clay targets, launched in the direction of their house.

Hang a humongous plexiglas Cone of Silence over their house.

Plant very tall, dense foliage at the property line.

Hang cowbells on trees near their house.

Erect a very long parabolic wall at the property line that will focus and return the sound.

Ask a local minister to intercede on your behalf with the owner and neighbors.

Invite the neighbors over for dinner, let them get to know you, and they might become sympathetic.

Gee... why not just go party with them? All this uptight attitude. Where's the love?

I had a neighbor in the same apt building do the loud music thing for awhile, a call to the police didnt help much......and it was loud enough to be heard more than a block away. Police showed up and told him to turn it down, and he did, for about 5 minutes. My next step was to take things into my own hands. I went and talked to him myself, that had no effect, so I went to the next step, remove the problem. Waited til a Sunday morning and went downstairs to the locked utility room, picked the lock and cut off his electricity, then left him a note on his door telling him that the tenants of the building had had enough, next step would be more harsh. He finally got the message.

Best to take the peaceful approach PC. Otherwise you are:

Broadcasting without appropriate licensing.

Creating "harmful interference"

The FCC will want to have a talk to you.

Some HAM units specialize in finding pirate radio broadcasts.

Rich
KG6NPA

yo, u have a icthy trigger finger

yo, u have a itchy trigger finger
:rolleyes:

Drive-by airhorning.

Problem solved.

I had a neighbor in the same apt building do the loud music thing for awhile, a call to the police didnt help much......and it was loud enough to be heard more than a block away. Police showed up and told him to turn it down, and he did, for about 5 minutes. My next step was to take things into my own hands. I went and talked to him myself, that had no effect, so I went to the next step, remove the problem. Waited til a Sunday morning and went downstairs to the locked utility room, picked the lock and cut off his electricity, then left him a note on his door telling him that the tenants of the building had had enough, next step would be more harsh. He finally got the message.

Excellent.

We had neighbors like that - house turned into apartments with the owners teen son one of the occupants. Every Sunday afternoon the teen son's band would practice in the garage. They not only used amplifiers (and this is the real crime) they were HORRIBLE - not only bad music but they really couldn't even make a school band. Our neighbor called the landlord who said, "Yep, that's why he needed his own place" but didn't do anything. Over the next week their amps were mysteriously destroyed. They came to our door and asked Hubby if he'd heard anything. Equipment was replaced and we wound up moving. Saw neighbor in town later and he said that once they had to buy new equipment for the third time, they gave up and either disbanded or practice elsewhere.

Go over and talk to them. If they don't turn it down, you can call the police. Here in VA, if you continue to disturb the peace, you can get arrested for it. So if they continue to play loud music, call the police... but AFTER you've tried to talk to them first.

Koffee

google Hayduke Revenge Getting Even Or have a block party and invite them for free. have everyone be nice to them if possible. I would like to think they would turn it down for friends. If not you now have a bunch of neighbors ready to go to work on them, legally of course.

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A simple and decently effective soulution is to rig up a system that produces the exact opposite sound. A deep sound and a high pitched sound that are exact opposites of each other will muffle each other quite well. When we did it in science class we had 2 amps facing each other, and obviously this is not as ideal of a set up for this technique, but it could still work.
It's called noise-cancellation technology...used a lot for safety in some noisy
environments. It works by producing a complementary sound opposite in phase
(not pitch) from the sound you intend to cancel. The catch is that the noise
has to have a predicatable phase/frequency config that the computer chip
can mimic. Works very well under certain conditions.

Not illegal, since you are broadcasting a sound, not a radio frequency.

Make an anonymous phone call to the police. Tell them your neighbor's music is too loud. Repeat as necessery. The End.

I usually get my revenge with pathetic neighbours.

However in your case...CALL THE POLICE! Gee, say you want something DONE and you want it DONE NOW.

people that are that noisy want you to hear it. they like attention. just call the cops and keep calling the cops and take a video recording of the noise to show how noisy they are in court... and talk to others. i bet they hate it to...


why do people have to be so noisy anyway?

Threaten the landlord with a lawsuit.

Drive-by airhorning.

Problem solved.

With the right equipment, yes.

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With the right equipment, yes.

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Can you say HEMI? :D

I just noticed how strange the title of this thread is...

Now that you mention it, yeah!