Garage Door Openers Stop Working On Entire Missouri Block

[Pardus]

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ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP/KMOX) — It’s a puzzling phenomenon: On one street in St. Charles County, garage door openers have stopped working.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that no one knows what exactly is going on at Westhampton View Court. The garage door openers at all five homes on the court stopped working shortly after Christmas.

“It’s a weird, weird thing,” Joe Sullivan told the Post-Dispatch. “And the timing for it all to go haywire for everybody at the same time can’t be coincidence, right?”

Garage door companies say interference problems are common at individual homes — they blame what is known as “frequency pollution.” But experts say having the issue extend to multiple homes is just plain weird.

“There is so much radio frequency pollution now,” Butch Martin, owner of Martin Door Co., told the paper. “Everything is wireless, and the more wireless stuff we get, the bigger the problem is going to get.”

The Post-Dispatch reports that the Westhampton View Court residents filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission over the issue. There is no word on how long it will take the FCC to conduct an investigation.

 

[SparkyJJO]

How much you want to bet that there is some kid with a homebrew RF jammer snickering nearby?

 

[Leros]

Garage doors use 300-400MHz RF, which is pretty common among RF devices (remote controls, RF keyboards, etc). I'm guessing that somebody in the area bought an RF device that is putting out way too much power, either due to poor design or a faulty component.

 

[Slew Foot]

Garage doors use 300-400MHz RF, which is pretty common among RF devices (remote controls, RF keyboards, etc). I'm guessing that somebody in the area bought an RF device that is putting out way too much power, either due to poor design or a faulty component.

Probably got one for christmas i think

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Someone gonna get raped by the FCC.

 

[Gothgar]

/tinfoilhat

 

[dmcowen674]

Should be easy to sniff out the offending transmitter.

 

[CZroe]

Most subdivisions have homes that are all build by the same developers and, thus, they will all use the same brand of garage door remote. I wonder if random seed value that generates the next security code hop or the security codes generated just happened to match and they started grabbing each others keys or something. Nah. EMI or EM damage is much more likely.

 

[Merad]

Is there an Air Force base nearby? If so 10 bucks says some fighter jock accidentally flipped on his radar jammer at low altitude and fried the electronics.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Is there an Air Force base nearby? If so 10 bucks says some fighter jock accidentally flipped on his radar jammer at low altitude and fried the electronics.

Could happen.

 

[Doppel]

Government mind control testing.

 

[mrblotto]

Probably got one for christmas i think

That's what I'm thinking.

A 'Little Bastard Do it Yourself Radio Kit' Thanx Dad! lol

 

[dmcowen674]

Is there an Air Force base nearby? If so 10 bucks says some fighter jock accidentally flipped on his radar jammer at low altitude and fried the electronics.

Likelihood of all of the receiver amps blowing out at once?

Need more info of what brand door opener and if they have a defect that can be susceptible to a high transmit level blowing out the receive circuit.

Simple clamping should shunt such a spike.

 

[slayer202]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Westh...=cUCEp0Zl8jovXrrt5ItY7g&cbp=12,48.46,,0,-1.41

 

[mrblotto]

Obviously it's the reddish transparent UFO in the sky above the houses..

 

[rh71]

Probably got one for christmas i think

and it only takes someone seconds to figure out this is what happened...

 

[Spacehead]

/tinfoilhat

The next think you know, birds will be falling out of the sky... oh wait

 

[allenk09]

Someone gonna get raped by the FCC.

As a ham radio operator, the FCC doesn't do anything unless you're costing them money, or are interfering with another licensed station that IS making them money. Otherwise they are a completely useless part of government.

You can run a 50W FM station on a clear frequency in a slightly smaller town and never get caught. It costs THEM money to go send someone out to RDF the signal, do all the paperwork, pay all the lawyers....and then the FCC doesn't even have the legal ability to COLLECT money from the fines they give out! The only place they catch pirates are Boston, NYC, and Miami.

 

[JTsyo]

Is there an Air Force base nearby? If so 10 bucks says some fighter jock accidentally flipped on his radar jammer at low altitude and fried the electronics.

Aren't the F117s based in Missouri? Not sure how close to these homes. If it was an EM jammer of some sort, wouldn't other things be effected too?

 

[reallyscrued]

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street indeed...

 

[Rifter]

small yeild EMP? lol

 

[velillen]

Is there an Air Force base nearby? If so 10 bucks says some fighter jock accidentally flipped on his radar jammer at low altitude and fried the electronics.

Its always great when an Aircraft Carrier pulls In/out of our shipyard. or does their radio test crap. Knocks out garage door openers and keyless entry within a good 10 mile radius. Though nothing is every broken just the pollution or whatever keeps them from working unless you are within like 1 foot of the door.

 

[rudder]

This way people will be forced to park their cars outside. At night the jets fly over... chemtrails. The chemicals coat the car and then are absorbed into your skin with the slightest touch.

These filters everyone uses on home watre supplies are making the flouride dispersal system less effective.

This one city is a test run.

 

[slayer202]

This way people will be forced to park their cars outside. At night the jets fly over... chemtrails. The chemicals coat the car and then are absorbed into your skin with the slightest touch.

These filters everyone uses on home watre supplies are making the flouride dispersal system less effective.

This one city is a test run.

Everyone knows this

ftfy

 

[Analog]