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Feds admit radios interfere with garage door openers
Hat tip, Graham Moomaw:
Graham Moomaw Retweeted
Very normal sounding interaction between a top-secret DoD facility and the local press about radio interference with garage door openers
https://www.fauquiernow.com/fauquier_news/article/fauquier-feds-admit-radios-interfere-with-garage-door-openers-11-5-2019 …
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November 5, 2019
Feds admit radios interfere with garage door openers
The Warrenton Training Center’s 346-acre Station B stands on View Tree Mountain at the northwest edge of town.
By Don Del Rosso
Staff Journalist
A top-secret and secure federal government facility just northwest of Warrenton admitted Tuesday that it may be responsible for crippling dozens of garage door openers in two nearby subdivisions.
More than 70 Olde Gold Cup and Silver Cup Estates homeowners have reported that openers started to fail about two weeks ago, according to Betty Compton, Olde Gold Cup’s Neighborhood Watch group coordinator.
The disturbance has affected more than 60 of Olde Gold Cup’s 214 homeowners. About nine of Silver Cup Estates’ 55 homeowners complained of malfunctioning door openers.
Some pointed fingers at Warrenton Training Center Station B along Bear Wallow Road, suggesting its activities somehow have interfered with the use of their garage doors.
Rarely commenting on its activities, the training center addressed their concerns in a three-paragraph statement.
“To address homeland defense needs and comply with government direction that agencies use the electromagnetic spectrum more efficiently, the Department of Defense (DoD) is deploying new land mobile radios to installation across the country,” the statement reads.
The radios “operate in the same frequency range . . . as many unlicensed, low-powered garage door openers, which have operated in this range for years,” the training center said.
Authorized to use that frequency range for “several decades,” the defense department’s deployment of land mobile radios “is relatively new,” according to the training center.
As a result, “some users of garage door openers have experienced varying levels of inoperability that has been attributed to interference caused by the new radios.”
Garage door openers “operate as unlicensed devises, they must accept any interference from authorized spectrum users.”
....
The Olde Gold Cup homeowners’ association will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Warrenton Police Department at 333 Carriage House Lane. A police department member will attend. The training center will not send at representative, Mitch said.
The Department of Defense in 2005 first acknowledged radio interference with garage door openers elsewhere.
Contact Don Del Rosso at Don@FauquierNow.com or 540-270-0300.
Feds admit radios interfere with garage door openers
The Warrenton Training Center’s 346-acre Station B stands on View Tree Mountain at the northwest edge of town.
By Don Del Rosso
Staff Journalist
A top-secret and secure federal government facility just northwest of Warrenton admitted Tuesday that it may be responsible for crippling dozens of garage door openers in two nearby subdivisions.
More than 70 Olde Gold Cup and Silver Cup Estates homeowners have reported that openers started to fail about two weeks ago, according to Betty Compton, Olde Gold Cup’s Neighborhood Watch group coordinator.
The disturbance has affected more than 60 of Olde Gold Cup’s 214 homeowners. About nine of Silver Cup Estates’ 55 homeowners complained of malfunctioning door openers.
Some pointed fingers at Warrenton Training Center Station B along Bear Wallow Road, suggesting its activities somehow have interfered with the use of their garage doors.
Rarely commenting on its activities, the training center addressed their concerns in a three-paragraph statement.
“To address homeland defense needs and comply with government direction that agencies use the electromagnetic spectrum more efficiently, the Department of Defense (DoD) is deploying new land mobile radios to installation across the country,” the statement reads.
The radios “operate in the same frequency range . . . as many unlicensed, low-powered garage door openers, which have operated in this range for years,” the training center said.
Authorized to use that frequency range for “several decades,” the defense department’s deployment of land mobile radios “is relatively new,” according to the training center.
As a result, “some users of garage door openers have experienced varying levels of inoperability that has been attributed to interference caused by the new radios.”
Garage door openers “operate as unlicensed devises, they must accept any interference from authorized spectrum users.”
....
The Olde Gold Cup homeowners’ association will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Warrenton Police Department at 333 Carriage House Lane. A police department member will attend. The training center will not send at representative, Mitch said.
The Department of Defense in 2005 first acknowledged radio interference with garage door openers elsewhere.
Contact Don Del Rosso at Don@FauquierNow.com or 540-270-0300.
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