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Mystery in North Olmsted solved: Source of key fob, garage opener problems identified
cleveland.com ^ | 05/04/2019

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.

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To: BenLurkin

Perhaps the day has passed when the local Ham Radio club would track down the interference just for the practice and then hold a barbecue.


21 posted on 05/05/2019 11:55:08 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: ZOOKER

Had a neighbor a long while ago who had a very powerful CB radio attached to a large mast on the wall of his home. It was so powerful that I could clearly hear him on my TV, radio, my telephone, and probably my toaster. I didn’t really care except for the evening when I got home from work and wanted to watch some TV.

I went next door to ask him to ease off his radio in the evening and he was very cordial and agreed.

I got back in the house and turned on my set and he was telling the world that “my neighbor asked me to stop transmitting so he can watch TV - I guess I’ll talk all night long”.

You know, of course, this means war.

I built a high-pitched squealer on Channel 21 and every time he was on, I’d fire up the squealer.

He went nuts. He tried everything to find the source, but I’d shut it off when he came out of the house and tried to locate it.

3 things happened: a trucker came to his house and punched him for grossing his wife out with of his obscenities on air.

The FCC showed up and took his radio and made him take his mast down.

I got back to watching TV.


22 posted on 05/05/2019 12:03:50 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: kiltie65

I had a set of Altec Lansing PC speakers. They were in the inside room corner, and I’d occasional get such interruptions, even when the speakers were “off”.

Tech support told me that they had “active” circuitry, and if it was a problem, take them back.

(I had to retire them when they developed a constant buzz, even “off”)


23 posted on 05/05/2019 12:13:41 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: seowulf

A retire AF tech told me that they’d switch on then off stuff in aircraft for maintenance purposes, without following procedures to “not broadcast” and disrupt nearby civilian stuff because it was quicker.


24 posted on 05/05/2019 12:19:55 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: ZOOKER

Yup, possibly faulty hardware. During the CB crazed seventies, I knew a family who boosted the signal strength on all their hw. The girl I was friendly with had a unit in her car that was extra-strong, and leaked signal.

She could transmit to the PA system of the local Marine Reserve base whenever sho drove by. Her voice could be heard from the street. It was a transport company, and she had a sexy voice, so the guys loved it.

The Marine boss found out who was talking to them, of course, and just told her to not disrupt things during drill-time.


25 posted on 05/05/2019 12:20:44 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Calvin Locke

That’s exactly what happened on the carrier.

A combat systems engineer was behind schedule.


26 posted on 05/05/2019 12:25:18 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: BenLurkin

Did they also disable the guy using the device?

Years ago, when a neighbor would get on his ham radio, our tv changed channels.


27 posted on 05/05/2019 12:36:14 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: Calvin Locke

Yep. I had one which took me a while to figure out the problem and replace xmitter/receiver.


28 posted on 05/05/2019 1:02:26 PM PDT by ataDude (.)
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To: Calvin Locke
30 years ago military EW experiments at the Concord Naval Weapons Station caused automatic garage doors to flap open and closed all over Contra Costa County in California. The problem was finally solved when Pacific Gas & Electric complained to Senator Dianne Feinstein about the sudden power drains threatening to cause blackouts.

The experiments were moved to the Lawrence Livermore Labs facility in the hills of western San Joaquin County where they eventually caused cars with electronic ignitions in the far right southbound lanes of I-5 to stall. That ended the experiments.

29 posted on 05/05/2019 1:12:49 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Maris Crane
Sometimes, it makes sense to artfully split infinitives. Sometimes, it's fun to blithely split infinitives.

English isn't Latin. Latin infinitives are one word — impossible to split. That observation, led some pointy-headed grammarians to erroneously deduce that English infinitives should not be split either. However, English is not Latin —it's not even a Romance language. It's possible to effortlessly split English infinitives, because they're composed of two words. Therefore, feel free to boldly split infinitives, where no man has done so before.

30 posted on 05/05/2019 2:41:10 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Calvin Locke

In the ‘80s I met a guy who flew AWACS planes.
He said they found out that sometimes when they flew over neighborhoods garage doors all over the place would start going up and down.


31 posted on 05/05/2019 3:08:28 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: BenLurkin

Had a customer years ago who’s ceiling fan and light would turn on in the middle of the night and wake him up. I asked him what time the neighbor came home from work and sure enough it was the same time this was happening. Garage door opener was on the same frequency so a quick change on the fan controls and bingo - problem solved.


32 posted on 05/05/2019 3:13:53 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

33 posted on 05/05/2019 3:21:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Maris Crane

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/nerd.wav

8^)


34 posted on 05/05/2019 3:23:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Obviously old technology. Remember the first cordless phones?

People would drive through a neighborhood with a cordless, listening for dial-tone to make their long distance calls, or 976 numbers.


35 posted on 05/05/2019 3:35:06 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

That’s funny — driving through a neighborhood to find a dial tone. I don’t remember that.


36 posted on 05/05/2019 4:39:19 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: BenLurkin

I am computer illiterate, but I got nothing from your post, Ben.

Probably something I am doing wrong.


37 posted on 05/05/2019 5:30:01 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

No, USFriend, I shall NOT split an infinitive.
The nuns told me never to do that.

Ya know, when I sent this post, I said to a friend, someone will reply with a lengthy explanation of why I am wrong.
I appreciate your trying to dissuade me, but NO splits.
My background is closer to Latin and Romance anyway, so others with same might feel the same.


38 posted on 05/05/2019 5:39:16 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: MayflowerMadam

I think I read about dial tone theft in an article about the then next-gen cordlesses with handset/base “pairing” to avoid problems broadcasting an open signal to the world.


39 posted on 05/05/2019 5:42:10 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Maris Crane

Your comment is on point. It is not trivial. Proofreading and correct use of grammar are now lost arts, leaving significant amounts of evidence of Intellectual Laziness.


40 posted on 05/05/2019 6:04:55 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable.)
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