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Re: Newbie questions



Or you can always place donuts on a neighbor's doorstep which will
cause the crook to follow his appetite rather than rob your home.


Stanley Barthfarkle wrote:
> >    In my home it was not possible to harden the phone wires so I put an
> > alarm loop in the phone cable. If someone cuts the phone cable, a 120 db
> > siren on the roof will sound, and a flashing strobe is activated. At that
> > point I expect a thief would probably leave very quickly, although I
> > understand that nothing except my Smith & Wesson will stop a determined
> > would be thief. As  was said, layers of protection. An alarm is a good
> > first layer of defense because the other method can be messy and incur
> > possible legal problems depending on thieves' rights.
>
>
>
> Someone already mentioned a phone-line tamper module, so I digress on that
> point. Yes, the thief will leave, but there is always the risk that someone
> could "feel out" your monitoring company's or police dept.'s response by
> triggering a false alarm several times, until they suspend response to it.
> Anything that can be triggered on the outside should be silent, monitored,
> and have a backup.
>
> There are very few places where it isn't at all possible to harden, or at
> least vastly improve, the security of the phone service line-
>
> Concrete slab- Drill inside at a 45 degree angle through the slab to outside
> approx 6-8" deep. Go slowly and let the pneumatic hammer drill do the work
> so as not to crack a piece off of your slab.
>
> Aerial drop- Get identical phone service cable (or some that looks very
> close) and run the existing wire into the attic at the service loop. Bring
> the "dummy line out through the same hole. Use electrical tape to bind these
> 2 together, so that it looks like some bozo phone technician did a cheap
> fix, and gives you a bigger "knot" with which to hide the wire entry hole.
> Send the dummy phone line down into a dummy demarc and you're set. Don't
> forget the 24 hr silent tamper zone.



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