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Car Theft from Boot
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MikeM wrote:All PCs and many electronic 'gadgets' such as PDAs have 'real time' clocks in them that obviously run all the time even when the main device is 'switched off' - they have to in order to keep accurate time ! The activity of these 'clocks' would be detectable by a very sensitive receiver tuned to the correct frequency. The signals would be at a very low level and would be further attenuated by the screening effect of the metal car boot.
As an electronic engineer I think that this COULD work !
If anyone is interested I could build a 'jammer' to defeat such a system but easy thing is not to leave your laptop in your car ?
P.S This 'wireless' technique is used to calibrate electronic wrist watches !!
Sounds interesting. I don't know about other people but I would be interested to see if the jammer works.Looking to raise some money
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It's unbelievable what some people believe (!) these days.0
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