Cell phone jammer

[Sam1]

Is interfering with a cellphone signal legal?

Jammers are legal to possess but illegal to operate.

[Sam1]

^^ sorry, didn't read the rest of the thread first. already been answered

[dlm37015]

Also, if anyone is running a cellular credit card machine a cell phone jammer will destroy them. The cellular credit card machines are designed to basically become permanently none functioning if they think they are being compromised. I know David had a machine ruined by a guy selling them at one of the gun shows. He called the CC company about it and they told him to buy another machine. And they run over $1,000. Turns out that single weekend the guy selling them ruined a bunch of vendors CC machines.

Dolomite

that is true mine cost 1200.00 cause of the guy at the expo last year

[BryanP]

Also, if anyone is running a cellular credit card machine a cell phone jammer will destroy them. The cellular credit card machines are designed to basically become permanently none functioning if they think they are being compromised. I know David had a machine ruined by a guy selling them at one of the gun shows. He called the CC company about it and they told him to buy another machine. And they run over $1,000. Turns out that single weekend the guy selling them ruined a bunch of vendors CC machines.

Dolomite

So, did the other dealers have a few choice words with the moron selling the jammers?

[ted]

So how can the casinos do it . Every casino that I have ever been in cell phone does not work in side but if you go out side the building it will every body I have talked to about it said Thay had the same problem hmmm ???

[DaveTN]

Also, if anyone is running a cellular credit card machine a cell phone jammer will destroy them. The cellular credit card machines are designed to basically become permanently none functioning if they think they are being compromised. I know David had a machine ruined by a guy selling them at one of the gun shows. He called the CC company about it and they told him to buy another machine. And they run over $1,000. Turns out that single weekend the guy selling them ruined a bunch of vendors CC machines.

that is true mine cost 1200.00 cause of the guy at the expo last year

So a credit card machine “thinks†it is being compromised and it self-destructs, causing you to have to buy a new one?

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Just wave the other customers around the one using the cell phone. In a few decades, they might figure it out.

[enfield]

Illegal to use, yes - definitely. The FCC says so.

Illegal to buy or possess, probably not. BUT, the FCC will track down and prosecute anyone for manufacturing them, selling them, or USING them. That's the tactics they follow for modified CB's and CB amplifiers.

[nightrunner]

So how can the casinos do it . Every casino that I have ever been in cell phone does not work in side but if you go out side the building it will every body I have talked to about it said Thay had the same problem hmmm ???

You can make buildings that by design dont allow cell signal in or out.

[R_Bert]

$11K per day, per violation, in 2005. In Davids case, Each person affected would be treated as a seperate violation, and I'm guessing three days Friday-Sunday) at a gunshow. Same "fees" for ham radio and CB violations as I recall (and some guys get hit hard over attitude).

So, the cost of convenience will add up *fast*

It is not worth the financial risk.

B.

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Edited June 23, 2012 by R_Bert

[enfield]

You can make buildings that by design dont allow cell signal in or out.

It's called a Faraday cage, as I believe someone else mentioned. Line the walls and ceilings with grounded metal mesh and no cell phones, no Rush Limbaugh, no Dancing with the Stars - no over-the-air signals pass in or out.

[Clod Stomper]

A talk show host that I listen to regularly bought one a couple years ago. Apparently it worked when he tried it.

If I had one, I'd use it for the morons who actually answer a cell phone in a movie theater and carry on a conversation in a normal voice like they don't know that they're complete jerks.

It can't be more illegal than shanking them in the eye and shoving the phone up their arse, which is what I'd rather do.

[dlm37015]

So a credit card machine “thinks†it is being compromised and it self-destructs, causing you to have to buy a new one?

yes that is what happened

[Guest Nikator]

Its illegal to use one but I have to say I'd love to have it.

I ready a story about a guy who used public transportation and got sick of people talking on their phones in the crowed confined space ... one flip of the switch and poof, silence.

[DaveTN]

yes that is what happened

Wow, that can’t be any more than software; I’m surprised that company can stay in business. I hope you find another machine company to buy from.

Since it’s outlawed by the FCC, and you know someone is knowingly using or demonstrating it at the show, and it damages your property; that should be criminal damage to property (or whatever the law is called in this state) and they should be subject to arrest on criminal charges.

[dlm37015]

it was a software thing but it took 3 weeks to send to the west coast i had to buy a new one .fixing to get one that works on a call phone

[Jonnin]

I've been looking into these online.

Does anyone have one or have experience with one? If they really do work, I am having me one these! I am sick of customers coming in on their phone and making me wait until they finish their conversation; inconveniencing me and worse, the next customer behind them.

I am sick of some clown driving 30mph in a 55mph zone because they can't get that phone out of their ear.

I wouldn't keep it on all the time, but I would be inclined to turn it on here at the shop when people won't get off them.

They do work, at least the ones you can get for certain applications do (hospitals, high security areas, and a few others are allowed to use them). Can't comment on any consumer grade ones, but as I understand it, they are illegal to use off your own property (?) and possibly on your property (?) unless you have either done some paperwork or something (?). I have been around them but not owned one, so I cannot comment on anything except that some of them at least work, and work very well...

[dlm37015]

the on ly place i know that can use them are horse and dog racing tracks

[BryanP]

the on ly place i know that can use them are horse and dog racing tracks

I wasn't aware of anyone who could legally use them.

[Jonnin]

Interesting....

france is allowing them in movie theaters, and india in prisons, and other countries are looking at who might be able to use one. They are looking at a version that has an emergency bypass, somehow, still being researched --- for us that would mean 911 works but nothing else does.

In the USA, it is legal to build a building (or room walls, etc) that blocks the signals, but you cannot do active jamming without serious approval from the FCC.

[Raoul]

I bought one a couple of years ago. It was essentially what you are looking for. It worked really well if you could get close enough to attach it to the offending cellphone.

[Caster]

It worked really well if you could get close enough to attach it to the offending cellphone.

SHOT WHO?!?

You mean physically attach it or you just need to be that close for it to work?

[Raoul]

SHOT WHO?!?

You mean physically attach it or you just need to be that close for it to work?

It was such a POS that you had to be that close for it to work.

[Caster]

It was such a POS that you had to be that close for it to work.

Ahh, Gotcha. Thanks.

[dlm37015]

the one the guy had in knoxville messed up a bunsh of cc machines he left early and hasnt been back