mm wrote:
Today on the news I heard that a big bunch of electronic garage door
openers weren't working in Churchville Maryland because the govt. at
the Aberdeen Proving Grounds was doing something with a satellite or
something. Tomorrow their going to do the same thing around Aberdeen.

People are paying techs to change the freqs, but some may have paid
for other repairs by mistake, one would assume.

Someone in charge admits he didn't get the word out well enough.

1) Don't they assign frequency ranges to things so that this sort of
thing doesn't happen?

2) How could the use of a frequency mess up the garage door openers?
Even if the govt. signal was stronger, why wouldn't the opener still
work? If the govt. signal was picked up by the opener, how come the
doors didn't open or shut. (Apparently they didn't since they would
surely have mentioned that.)


If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
Must be a slow news day in Maryland- this has been going on for years,
at multiple bases, and even at some civil airports. Like others in the
thread have said, homeowners are legally SOL- low-power non-licensed
consumer devices are not protected. Megawatts versus milliwatts, the
big-ass transmitter will simply overpower the tiny one. Sometimes
repositioning or changing the length of the antenna pickup wire attached
to the opener can help. Sound like the local garage door companies have
their shears out.

Did the article say if the base was working with the locals, to maybe
fine-tune reality a tad, and move their transmitter to a freq that would
cause less problems, or reorient the transmitting antenna? They aren't
obligated to, but base commanders hate having the locals all ****y
with them. They have done that at some bases, to include providing the
local media with how-to guides about moving the antenna wire in the
garage and such.

aem sends...