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> short out your own electrical outlets so that nobody else in the apartment building can listen to the radio Keep in mind the vintage of the document. At the
by tonyarkles 7y ago
> short out your own electrical outlets so that nobody else in the apartment building can listen to the radio
Keep in mind the vintage of the document. At the time, it's likely that fused electrical circuits would be shared between multiple apartments. At least in North America, it's very very likely that each apartment would have its own panel.
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- TeMPOraL 7y agoWe could adjust that suggestion to modern times and give a guide to create an electric arc that stays just under your fuse's break point - the goal being to create enough broad-spectrum RF interference to jam radio electronics for everyone else in the building. (IANAEE, but a hardware hacker colleague of old told me a story years ago, about a DIY device you could plug into mains which (AFAIR) dumped high frequencies into the wire, and this would screw with television sets and lots of other sensitive electronics, everywhere in the circuit up to the next large transformer. He also told me the best place to plug it in would be a street light; it could kill all the TVs in a group of apartment buildings.)
- tonyarkles 7y ago> We could adjust that suggestion to modern times and give a guide to create an electric arc that stays just under your fuse's break point That is delightfully disgusting :). There might be some heat problems, but in the Canadian Winter, having an extra 1750W of electric arc heating wouldn't be too bad!