Re: garage remote jamming

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Neil Cherry" <njc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:slrneu9she.2ck.njc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:52:51 GMT, Dave Houston wrote:
> > Here's another case of military signals jamming garage door openers.
> >
> >
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022501
417.html
> >
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022600
636.html
>
> Actually isn't this a case of consumer products using a military
> frequency and the consumer paying the price for it?

I think anything that says "must accept harmful interference" is susceptible
to getting "stepped on" in some way.  That's getting more and more likely as
the spectrum gets auctioned off and re-allocated.

I'll bet a lot more than just garage door openers are taking hits.  The
WashPost would hardly be interested if three people's RF HA interfaces or
some wireless alarms went amuck so it wouldn't make the news.   I've had
times when none of my X-10 RF or RS wireless thermometers would respond and
then, just as mysteriously, the problems vanish.  I live near a bunch of
military radio towers so that may make my experiences atypical.

--
Bobby G.