Auf dem parkplatz II
(pretentious? mich?)

Quiet rural station, only a couple of cars in the car park, pissing with rain, loads of soggy commuters waiting to go one way, loads of soon-to-be-soggy commuters getting off the train. Some wee cockend is pushing his way through the crowd, including physically shoving one lady out of his way on his mad dash to the car park.

Will I be quick enough? Will I get the UHF radio on, dial in 433.xxxMHz (obscured to stop other antisocial cunts in vans doing this) in time? Key it up and... Watch him stand there, in the rain getting wetter and wetter and angrier and angrier as his central locking won't unlock.

It took him nearly five minutes to figure out he could just use the key. Wanker.
(gordonjcp, Sat 26 Jan 2013, 17:30, 5 replies)

But how did you know
this would bugger up his key and not that of other people?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 26 Jan 2013, 21:33, closed)

if no one else tries to use their plips in that time period
no one else notices that it's effectively swamped. Imagine trying to play 'Name that tune' played through an iPhone speaker while in the middle of a drum'n'bass nightclub on 'drop the bass' night. Technical term is 'swamping'. He's making so much radio noise compared to the power of a tiny plip transmitter that the receiver is unable to hear it.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Sun 27 Jan 2013, 22:56, closed)

There were only a couple of cars in the car park
Most of them didn't look like they used UHF (different manufacturers use different systems), and if anyone else had been locked out by it I'd have stopped doing it.

The frequency is annoyingly close to one that is used pretty much all over the country for data modes, which causes problems.
(gordonjcp, Mon 28 Jan 2013, 8:46, closed)

Pigeon superstition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtfQlkGwE2U In this video, a pigeon is rapidly trained to turn in a circle.
(in under a minute).
The fun part is that the pigeons also train themselves to do wierd stuff, on no basis, if you present food at fixed intervals.
They think what they do matters, and then whatever they happen to be doing when they get food
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGazyH6fQQ4 Pigeon ping pong.

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QKSvu3mj-14#t=433s

tl;dr - key the transmitter until he does something wierd to try to get it to work.
Repeat this every day for a little while, and you can get him to do wierd stuff.

Purely theoretically at least.
Doing this would be unethical, possibly a violation of a ham licence, and very funny.
(speedevil, Sat 26 Jan 2013, 23:46, closed)

Fab idea!

( da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Sun 27 Jan 2013, 23:25, closed)