Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

Wed Aug 31 03:52:24 UTC 2016

On August 30, 2016 at 16:26 eric.kuhnke at gmail.com (Eric Kuhnke) wrote:
 > Does this mean you could drive around with a (illegal, but not difficult to
 > build or obtainl) 20W wide band VHF/UHF jammer radio fed into a 1 meter
 > parabolic dish, aim it at random buildings and set off peoples' halon
 > systems?  Wow.

I'd like to think it's been fixed.

Then again there are those Blasting Zones one goes thru on highways
with big signs ordering drivers: NO CELLPHONE USE! BLASTING ZONE!

Sounds like a good plan.

 > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 1:46 PM, <bzs at theworld.com> wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > About the worst that ever happened to me was a security guy's
 > > walkie-talkie setting off an instant Halon drop. Cost about $10,000 to
 > > refill and was fairly exciting for those present. That also cut the
 > > machine room's power.
 > >
 > > At least it didn't set off the sprinkler system.
 > >
 > > We sat down with the Halon system vendor to find out why that happened
 > > after proving, on a by-passed system, that yes indeed one of these
 > > common walkie-talkies sets the thing off.
 > >
 > > File under: More Things To Worry About!
 > >
 > > --
 > >         -Barry Shein
 > >
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