Re: garage remote jamming

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Houston" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >"Bill Kearney" <wkearney-99@hot-mail-com> wrote in message
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> >> > With more and more HA applications using RF in some manner, it will
> >> > likely be an ongoing issue
> >>
> >> Oh please, that's just completely unsubstantiated FUD.
> >
> >I wouldn't say that.  This is at least the third instance I've heard or
read
> >about where significant numbers of people have had to retool to
accommodate
> >new RF interference from military ops.  If there are three we know about
> >that usually means that there are plenty more that we don't hear about.
If
> >you were to experience any problems and called the Post to say your
Lutron
> >RA system was hosed, it would very likely *never* be considered
newsworthy
> >because so few others would likely be calling in.  Same for an X-10 or
> >Z-wave system.  Not enough users for anyone to care if the Marines were
> >jamming them.  Garage openers and automobile key fobs?  Lots of users to
> >complain.
>
> As military, police, fire, etc. need additional frequencies, the bands
used
> by unlicensed low-power consumer applications are a logical place to look.
> As we've seen in this case, they can't even be bothered to ask the FCC
what
> technologies they will likely be stepping on and how many people they
might
> inconvenience. I doubt this will be the only instance.

It's puzzling to me why there aren't bands for low power RF control purposes
that don't allow any high power transmitters.

> >> > It's one more reason why I think a reliable PLC system
> >>
> >> Which have proven themselves to be horrendously unreliable in
residential
> >> settings.  No thanks.
> >
> >If it's absolutely, positively got to work without any possibility of
> >interference, go hard wired.  Neither PLC nor RF is immune to
interference.
>
> I did say "retrofit". I agree that hard wired is best but it's not always
> easy to retrofit. I would keep an eye on HPCC (HomePlug Command &
Control).
> Yitran Communications was chosen to supply the chips and they showed a
> system at the most recent CES show. It is supposed to be reliable and low
> cost.

Agreed re: retrofit.

--
Bobby G.