Posted on 05/05/2019 10:34:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The cause was a custom, man-made device inside a resident’s home, North Olmsted Councilman Chris Glassburn announced Saturday afternoon. Residents of Virginia Avenue, Brendan Lane, MacBeth Lane and Terra-Lynn Drive reported they were plagued with the problems for weeks.
Glassburn would only say it is a notification system which allows the resident to know if there is movement in the house/someone is in the house.
Glassburn and Bill Hertzel, a retired communication employee, found the device after a resident agreed to allow them inside a home.
“The device, which ran on a battery backup, was identified and disabled,” Glassburn wrote in a statement.
Residents had experienced radio interference that prevented them from opening their cars and garage doors.
Many of those residents at first figured it was their device acting up.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
Well that was useful dah.
The Chinese Military immediately purchased the patent rights.
re: “a communication employee”
Never seen that on a job advert ...
Whole bunch of this story missing.
I’ve had those TV set-top active (built-in amplifier) “rabbit ears” create sweeping signals in the 440 MHz amateur band before; maybe they just didn’t know what they were looking at ...
I’ve had six or seven of those in the last 25 years or so, still have one active in the neighborhood five or six houses down, but it ‘sweeps’ through so quickly I haven’t had a need to contact the home owners.
Well, the military started using those frequencies, and it caused similar problems for the owners of that said door openers.
Your title perked up my ears ... I graduated from NOHS 50+ years ago, lived just several blocks from this incident. Nobody ever hears of North Olmsted.
I own your radio spectrum. You rent it from me.
If you want your garage door to work again, PAY ME!
I hate to be the one to point this out, but when WORDS AND SENTENCES are your life’s work, some care should be taken.
To say “to NOT identify,” as written in the article is not right. That is splitting an infinitive. “ To identify,” is an infinitive, so properly it should read “NOT to identify.”
It happens very often, as we all can see the decline of supposed wordsmiths. For this to happen to those in other professions, it is understandable, but it is inexcusable for reporters.
I apologize for taking time for something trivial, but it is just an example that particularly annoys me.
Stuff all has to share the ISM bands, interference is as unavoidable as finding all the stalls are full at a public restroom. No one has any right to expect priority, as long as they’re in compliance with FCC regulations everyone has to share equally.
What’s the frequency Kenneth?
During the CB craze, some enthusiasts boosted their signals to vastly increase their range. With "skip" (bouncing off the ionosphere to bend around the earth's curvature) CB'ers could talk over vast distances, all the way around the world on a good day.
On not-so-good days their signal bled all over other bands. Dad claimed he could open his neighbor's garage door just by keying his mike. He claimed he could cause radio-controlled model planes to crash as well, if he wanted to.
This sounds similar - cheap or badly modified equipment spewing trash all over the airwaves...
That’s why so many of the electronic devices you own say “FCC Approved” on them.
Back in the 70’s We had an electric organ that would quit playing music from the keyboard and get a loud static sound, and the voices of truckers would start, “Breaker 19” and we could hear them broadcast, have absolutely no idea how it was overriding the organ, but eventually it would fade and the organ would start playing again. Hearing voices coming from that organ was creepy when I was a kid.
Well, the fine print on the garage door openers should say that under Part 13, they must accept interference from any licensed user, since they aren’t actually licensed to use the frequencies upon which they operate.
Oops. Part 15.
An aircraft carrier was having an availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard doing some work on the radar systems.
They unlocked all the car doors in Bremerton one day.
Thirty years ago, maybe more, my sister in law got interruptions while she was using her hard wired phone. Strange messages that sounded like military code. Can’t really remember them, but something like “the target is in range” then various code words. She thought it was maybe Air National Guard training or something since she was near an airport. At first she thought maybe private detectives, except for all the code words used. It went on the entire time she lived in that house for about a year until she moved. I told her to report it to authorities, but she never did. If it was the military, probably the whole end of town got their secret messages over their phones.
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