University of Iowa coach Hayden Fry complained after a 1985 loss that the fans were too loud for his quarterback, Chuck Long, to call plays and suggested sound meters be used to gauge the noise level, penalizing home teams if there was too much noise.
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BEAM THEM QUIET, SCOTTY : The sound meter is used by police officers and environmental control inspectors to crack down on motorists, nightclub owners and others whose noisy cars, stereos or air-conditioners are violating the law . ( Yes, air-conditioners, if their noise output exceeds 45 decibels .)
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The group also helped develop " Operation Soundtrap, " in which the police have been given sound meters so they can tell when cars with loud radios or boom boxes are noisier than legally permitted; previously, environmental officials who had no power to make arrests, were the only people with meters.
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TESTOSTERONE AND NOISE : The police, who increased their use of the sound meter after Mayor Rudolph Giuliani started a campaign against " quality of life " nuisances in the city, say that typical arrests in Greenwich Village are of young men who, vying for young women's glances, try to blast their car stereos to realms where no ear has gone before.
