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Garage door remote controls working again
By Keith Darcé, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 12:03 p.m.
The mysterious radio interference that had caused remotes for garage doors and car locks to malfunction along the San Diego coast for nearly two weeks suddenly disappeared Thursday, the same day as The San Diego Union-Tribune reported the problem, according to numerous people who had experienced trouble with their devices.
Beverly Bradley of Pacific Beach said she discovered the glitch had gone away after a neighbor knocked on her door Thursday night.
“He said it was the first time he had come home from work and been able to trigger his garage door,” Bradley said. “I checked with other neighbors who said their remote (car) keys were also working. So somebody changed something.”
In the news report, the chief engineer for the largest U.S. maker of garage door opener systems blamed powerful radio systems on Navy ships for interference on the 315-megahertz radio frequency, which is licensed to the military but used by many garage door and car key remote control systems.
Reports of the interference had stretched from downtown San Diego to La Jolla. A more extensive wave of remote control failures struck a longer stretch of the coast in April.
Navy spokesman Brian O’Rourke said Monday that he couldn’t confirm whether a radio system on a local ship had been turned off last week in order to alleviate the most recent outbreak. “Not as far as I know,” he said.
Keith Darcé: (619) 293-1020; keith.darce@uniontrib.com. Follow on Twitter at @keithdarce.
Garage door remote controls working again
By Keith Darcé, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 12:03 p.m.
The mysterious radio interference that had caused remotes for garage doors and car locks to malfunction along the San Diego coast for nearly two weeks suddenly disappeared Thursday, the same day as The San Diego Union-Tribune reported the problem, according to numerous people who had experienced trouble with their devices.
Beverly Bradley of Pacific Beach said she discovered the glitch had gone away after a neighbor knocked on her door Thursday night.
“He said it was the first time he had come home from work and been able to trigger his garage door,” Bradley said. “I checked with other neighbors who said their remote (car) keys were also working. So somebody changed something.”
In the news report, the chief engineer for the largest U.S. maker of garage door opener systems blamed powerful radio systems on Navy ships for interference on the 315-megahertz radio frequency, which is licensed to the military but used by many garage door and car key remote control systems.
Reports of the interference had stretched from downtown San Diego to La Jolla. A more extensive wave of remote control failures struck a longer stretch of the coast in April.
Navy spokesman Brian O’Rourke said Monday that he couldn’t confirm whether a radio system on a local ship had been turned off last week in order to alleviate the most recent outbreak. “Not as far as I know,” he said.
Keith Darcé: (619) 293-1020; keith.darce@uniontrib.com. Follow on Twitter at @keithdarce.
