US Navy Jamming Garage Door Openers.

[AF6LJ]

I wish there were a way to change thread titles. I object to this thread's title.

The US Navy is NOT "jamming" garage door openers. "Jamming" in radio refers to the intentional disruption of legitimate communications by illegal means - and the Navy isn't doing that.

The title should read something like "Interference-prone garage door openers pick up Navy radar signals".

73 de jim, N2EY

That definition isn't exactly right.
Are you saying the US during the cold war was doing something illegal when they did (and still) jammed transmissions from Cuba?

[KA9JLM]

I wish there were a way to change thread titles. I object to this thread's title.

The US Navy is NOT "jamming" garage door openers. "Jamming" in radio refers to the intentional disruption of legitimate communications by illegal means - and the Navy isn't doing that.

The title should read something like "Interference-prone garage door openers pick up Navy radar signals".

73 de jim, N2EY

10-4

I agree.

[AF6LJ]

That would be a bummer for a person too Lazy to get their Butt out and do some Calorie burning work.

They need to get inside before the fast food gets cold.

Can we have a pity party ?

That wouldn't be me...
I walked NINE MILES of the round trip to go meet up with my friend and see the last Batman movie.
Oh and that is NINE MILES in shoes that matched my skirt and top.

[KJ6LFD]

Navy is jamming missile silo doors. Garage doors are collateral damage.

[KA9JLM]

That wouldn't be me...
I walked NINE MILES of the round trip to go meet up with my friend and see the last Batman movie.
Oh and that is NINE MILES in shoes that matched my skirt and top.

Let me guess.

You went as CatGirl.

Cool Cat you must have been.

[AF6LJ]

Let me guess.

You went as CatGirl.

Cool Cat you must have been.

No I didn't couldn't get the motorcycle.

I went as myself, took along my gas mask just in case. (Just kidding)
It was a good movie and a fitting end to the trilogy.

[KW4MW]

I wish there were a way to change thread titles. I object to this thread's title.

The US Navy is NOT "jamming" garage door openers. "Jamming" in radio refers to the intentional disruption of legitimate communications by illegal means - and the Navy isn't doing that.

The title should read something like "Interference-prone garage door openers pick up Navy radar signals".

73 de jim, N2EY

BFD

I wrote the title as a bit of amusement at what I believe are typical overblown knee jerk reactions to what is actually a trifiling matter. Apparently you're not amused (as usual).

Jamming is usually deliberate, but the term also broadly describes the unintentional or unintended interference from another source.

FYI it seems that QRZ currently has this as the lead article on its home page.

See New radio system at sub base fouling up garage door openers by N4UFO with 50 comments.

[W5DQ]

Garage door openers are unlicensed Part 15 devices. Under FCC rules, when used, they can not cause interference, and must accept interference from, other radio services using the frequency in question, as those other services have priority.

They are operating in a band assigned to & used heavily by the military.

Anyone here really surprised to hear about this issue coming up... again? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Problem is try explaining that to a generally uneducated (RF wise) public who for the most part are becoming anti-military thanks to the current political atmosphere. Joe Public thinks when he plunks down his Visa card for a Genie garage door opener, he has the backing of the law to protect his investment and no one or nothing should interfere with HIS right to do what HE wants to. When outside signals interfere with his new garage door opener, he goes beserk and looks for someone to blame it on, or worse yet, to sue to make some bucks off of!!!!

Bad thing is .... RF hasn't read the law or anything else. It obeys the laws of physics and electronics.

[KW4MW]

Bad thing is .... RF hasn't read the law or anything else. It obeys the laws of physics and electronics.

That's something me, you and Jimmy Maxwell agree on!

[KA5S]

That aint nuttin. Local infamous 11m operator brags about getting investigated by FCC & Military personnel for opening bay doors here at Wright Patt AFB back in the late 70's. (My neighbor that makes 10m useless)

I was the "go to" guy for RFI problems while I was stationed at Fort Hood in the late 1970's, and one of the complainants demanded I stop CB'ers from interfering with his test equipment.

What kind of test equipment? Does the term Special Weapons mean anything?

I explained propagation, the CB craze and the fact that tens of thousands of people likely brought unlicensed CB radios onto Fort Hood every day.

No mushrooms were harmed in the commission of this deed.


Cortland
KA5S