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BartholomewBandy t1_j6p9bih wrote

More or less. He would come back occasionally to eat on the basement overhang, but if we grabbed him, he’d yowl till we let him out. He might be gone for weeks at a time. We grabbed him when we moved, and he retired to life on the couch. We undoubtedly removed him from his secondary families. Lefty was a good cat and the first to love on our dogs.

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CWF182 t1_j6p1l3g wrote

The frequency does not have to be outside of the FCC limts for this to happen. It's simply poor Radio Frequency (RF) shielding in either the cables or device itself. I'm a ham radio operator and we deal with RF interference all the time using totally legal frequencies. In fact RF interference is why many well designed devices will have a cylindrical object in the connecting and / or power cords. That device is a ferrite choke and it's purpose is to minimize the induced current that results from nearby RF fields from affecting the device.

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galactica_pegasus t1_j6oshmp wrote

Depending on what radio that is it's possible it's operating outside of FCC limits, anyway. BaoFeng radios, for example (there are others) are often sold online with frequencies and power levels unlocked that are not legal in the USA. You're supposed to program them (software defined radio, I think?) but few people do it... They just take them out of the box, play around, and cause havoc.

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Dyolf_Knip t1_j6ombd3 wrote

My cat from college put up with soooo much manhandling from my older two kids. And he really did put up with it without complaint. If it got too rough he'd walk away, but usually be right back a few seconds later. We're pretty sure he decided to check out for good when he realized there was a third kid on the way.

2 weeks later a friendly stray showed up on the back deck all "I hear you have an opening".

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