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Eric Forster took this information into account when he was investigating businesses that he could operate out of his home in Castleton. Forster, who has owned property in Rappahannock for over 20 years and been a full-time resident for six, decided to start a home protection service. After two years of looking into protection devices, he settled on a radio controlled system and is now regional manager in an eight-county area for Sentinel Alarm, Inc. Forster’s office adjacent to his Castleton home could serve as an advertisement for the protection business. A computerized unit that looks like a stereo speaker controls the system from a corner bookshelf. At a flip of a switch, sensor devices set around the room begin broadcasting coded radio messages to the control unit.
The front door is guarded by a pressure sensitive receiver under the inside door mat. When the system is turned on, a footstep on the mat will trigger radio signals that activate an alarm. Forster feels this type of protection is valuable since his statistics show that 64 percent of break ins are through doors.
“It’s not just windows that you have to be careful with,” he said. “Robbers want to carry things out.”
Forster has also protected his desk drawer and typewriter with devices that send radio signals to the central unit. He descr ie tamper switch used for the typewriter as “quite diabolical." It is a break apart switch attached to the underside of the typewriter and to the desk. If thieves pick up the typewriter, the connection between the two halves of the switch is broken and bingo, an alarm goes off as radio signals alert the central control unit.
Forster has also rigged up alarms at the windows. “I’m fascinated with the whole thing,” he explained as he demonstrated an office
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