"donald girod" wrote in message
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The thing I love about this newsgroup is that you can always depend on
respondents to assume you are an idiot. Why, if I were planning to spend
half an hour on hold in order to talk to someone at Oregon Scientific,
would I not first change the batteries, press the reset, and do all the
stuff it says in the book to do? Why would cold be an issue if the
failures occur in warm weather as well?

It has been useful, however--I did learn that a majority of respondents
have not had trouble, and two others have. Not a great statistical study,
but an indication that at least some of these units function as intended.

Is yours a model BAR112HGA???
If so mine acted up too and I suspect it was caused by a battery voltage
that dropped on the unit outside during a freeze. After that they all flaked
out. I pulled all the batteries on all the units, put them in close
proximity and started from scratch. It has been working for three months now
without a problem.....
These units have a 1 year warranty and you might try emailing them at

One other thing, if you have any other devices that operate at 433mhz that
*would* cause it to flake out. I discovered a similar problem with the
2.4ghz phone and the 2.4ghz wireless gateway on my laptop. The phone would
echo and the network would slow down....Good Luck, Ross