Kurt Rahn wrote:Wait, wait, wait...you're saying they set the sound meter up and used it when cars were moving toward or away from it? How exactly does that qualify as 50 ft? Unless I'm missing something, if the car's moving, it's going to be closer than 50 feet from the meter at some point during the reading unless they set it 50 ft off the course in a strategic location where nothing else could set it off. Wouldn't just be easier and more accurate to impound suspected cars, leave the car stationary, put the meter 50 feet behind the car and make the driver rev to full throttle? If stock cars are setting it off, I don't see how it was reading correctly, whether it was user/setup error or miscalibratation. But then I'm not a physicist, so I could be wrong.
I'm not saying anything, just providing a link to the actual rules... However, given the guidelines, the closest a car should ever be to the meter is 50ft and that would be when you're directly in-front of it. Using my invisible 50ft string, I have a hard time seeing how you could ever place the meter in a position where 50ft wasn't directly in-front of the meter and have it be anywhere close to the rule or be safe for that matter.
The rule pre-dates me so don't consider this accurate, but the rule is there because the region almost lost the lot due to the neighboring homeowners complaining about sound. It was a compromise between us, the homeowners, the stadium, the city (not sure who all was involved) and is somehow tied (not sure exactly how it's worded) to our contract with the stadium. I highly doubt it's going to change (why risk it, the stadium is probably going to be torn down in a few years anyways) and people have been dealing with it for over a decade.
