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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: corq on December 12, 2014, 0107 UTC

Title: Perfect gift for nosy neighbors paranoid about your antennas...
Post by: corq on December 12, 2014, 0107 UTC
A gift for nosy neighbors who think that your antennas are giving them colon polyps... from reddit's /r/amateurradio

https://pay.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/2oyyn1/a_gift_for_nosy_neighbors_who_think_that_your/ (https://pay.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/2oyyn1/a_gift_for_nosy_neighbors_who_think_that_your/)

Bonus content: scroll down to the actual early Amazon review comments on the device for some comedy gold.
Title: Re: Perfect gift for nosy neighbors paranoid about your antennas...
Post by: jFarley on December 12, 2014, 0122 UTC
 ;D
Title: Re: Perfect gift for nosy neighbors paranoid about your antennas...
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 12, 2014, 1357 UTC
Does it also block the peskies on 6925?
Title: Re: Perfect gift for nosy neighbors paranoid about your antennas...
Post by: atrainradio on December 12, 2014, 1933 UTC
Does it kill QRM too?
Title: Re: Perfect gift for nosy neighbors paranoid about your antennas...
Post by: clobdell on December 12, 2014, 2036 UTC
The purple one is for QRM, atrainradio
Title: Re: Perfect gift for nosy neighbors paranoid about your antennas...
Post by: ulx2 on December 13, 2014, 0332 UTC
These devices are really protecting from EMR of almost whole wave length range in a room. It's a plug with short-circuited contacts.
Title: Re: Perfect gift for nosy neighbors paranoid about your antennas...
Post by: jFarley on December 13, 2014, 1413 UTC
I am finding that it also is effectively blocking unwanted ads in my browser.

(http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s387/jFarley44/Aulterra_zps0037b35b.jpg) (http://s1049.photobucket.com/user/jFarley44/media/Aulterra_zps0037b35b.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Perfect gift for nosy neighbors paranoid about your antennas...
Post by: Pigmeat on December 14, 2014, 0553 UTC
It reminds me of those old, "Turn Your House Into A Giant TV Antenna" things from the pre-cable days. Hell, it probably is one of the things with new packaging and a new pitch.

Have you been able to keep your S.O. from buying a box, Corq?