Military radios interfering with garage door openers
Homeowners in coastal Orange County are among the latest to discover this quirk. Signals from Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach have been interfering with remote openers as far as half a mile away.
By Mike Anton, Los Angeles Times
May 28, 2011
Garage door remote not working? The Pentagon may be to blame.
Not because of any grand conspiracy theory, but rather the mundane use of a radio frequency the military hadn't used much before.
Homeowners in coastal Orange County are among the latest to discover this quirk. There, signals from Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach have been interfering with garage door openers as far as half a mile away since March.
That's when testing began on a new radio system that will allow the base to network with local fire and police agencies during emergencies. The frequency falls in the range of 380-399.9 megahertz, a band long reserved for the Department of Defense but rarely used.
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Military radios interfering with garage door openers
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