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Air Force Jams Garage Doors
SonicSpike points us to a Chicago Tribune article reporting that in Colorado the Air Force is jamming garage doors. In a joint U.S.-Canadian operation, they were testing communications on a frequency that would be used by first responders in the event of a threat to homeland security. From the article: "But the frequency also controls an estimated 50 million garage door openers, and hundreds of residents in the area found that theirs had suddenly stopped working... Technically, the Air Force has the right to the frequency, which it began using nearly three years ago at some bases. Signals have previously interfered with garage doors near bases in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania."
This happened to me on Maple Street. Caused quite a stir and a few people wound up shot in the action ... course they were commies so no harm done.
until I go out and find an F16 in the garage.
oh noooooooooo, now they'll have to get their fat asses out of their car and do the keypad instead! NOOOOO!!!! What is this, the middle ages?! Maybe some ppl will hire illegal immigrants to open their garages for them :P Then again, there's always the wireless, computer controller option :D Anyone got a driver for a USB 2.4 GHz garage door?
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And what occur the garge owners use their remote-control? Does this jam the Airforce frequency??
8:30 am:
"- Chief, we have fired the missile!
"- Hum, which missile?
"- Well, The Missile, ya know!
"- Ah..... Ah? Who has given that order?
"- Well, you know, Washington signals nowadays are rather mixed but I confirm the emission was on the usual frequency and has been repeated frantically in the last minutes. According to the Terrestrial Message Bluring Scheme we have had for some years now, the Message came from many locations but with the same words in it".
"- Hum... It certainly comes from the White House then. Big affair."
I am not Remy Mouton, unfortunately: http://remy.mouton.free.fr/art/
Just a casual thought; But could someone on the Air Force staff flip the their garage door switch every time UCLA scores against USC so that the garage doors open up in a nation wide "wave"?
Well, gentlemen, we know who here has a garage door opener. :-)
LOL.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Am I the only one that thought that trapping your hand inside the top of the door (the first to be eaten into the ceiling) and pulling the MANUAL RELEASE LEVER is an extraordinarily bad idea?
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
BTW, I'm part of the squadron that helped get this system online for the testing.. At our unit's holiday party, they presented the squadron commander a garage door opener as his door prize.
Maybe they were just trying to lure foreign airforces to use it in their hangars, so if^H^H when the U.S invades somewhere all the pilots are stuck behind two very, very large doors.
A cunning plan indeed
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Park in the driveway?
If you're so fragile that 20F weather is "deadly" then you shouldn't be driving. What if your car dies in the middle of a country road? You're fucked.
Hint: put a fucking coat on.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Jesus Christ drives an SUV?
Al-qaida sleeper cells can't do much damage with their car bombs if they can't get them out of the garage.
Ha... Actually, around here (Midwest Burbs, nowheresville...) when the power went out a few months ago from storms, I was surprised the number of cars that were just PARKED outside of the houses overnight in the neighborhood because the Automatic doors weren't working... I had to show the neighbor lady how to unlatch it from the chain ("yep, that red pull hickymabob thingydoodle...") and raised it by hand for her. She had never had to do that and didn't know how and her car was "STUCK" inside. Of course my other neighbor has a generator, so he's usually pretty good. Nice to have a TV arouind for severe storms warnings, etc... I think I'm the only one of the 3 that has GAS Stove, so I can still cook, just have to light things manually. Lots of fun. Make you realize how much you depend on those pesky electrons when the hum of the always-on computer disapears. (and you habitually turn lights on/off as you enter rooms with your flashlight even though it does absolutely no good... Always thought that was funny too... )
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Wire up your transmitter to a big antenna, and keep boosting the output power, until the garage door opens :)
Can you say "Part 15 device"? I knew you could.
Or until the USAF triangulates your antenna and shows up to ask why you keep sending the code 11110101 to their control tower, with a louder gain every week...
... along with a complaint that their hangar doors are opening...
... while the aircrafts are just half way through.