[Scan-DC] [OT] Garage door openers near Aberdeen PG no longer work

[b_thom at juno.com]

This story again. It's on Baltimore's channel 45 tonight. There's an
article in the Baltimore Sun too. APG has a new radio system.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/harford/bal-te.md.ha.garage07mar07
,0,3393135.story

http://tinyurl.com/2wnduj

"APG radio signal disables electric door openers
....

If this is a showdown of military technology versus consumer gadgetry, it
is, not surprisingly, no contest. APG's new radio signals are
overpowering the meager, fraction-of-a-watt ones emitted by garage door
openers.

Reith lives within sight of the Churchville Testing Site, part of
Aberdeen Proving Ground. The installation recently began using the new
Land Mobile Radio, which enables the military and first responders to
communicate with each other, but it operates on a frequency shared by
some garage door openers.
....

APG spokesman George Mercer said that the radio system at Aberdeen will
be activated sometime next week.
....

Since the Department of Defense began rolling out the Land Mobile Radio
in 2004, automatic garage door users near military bases have been
complaining. By 2005, the Government Accountability Office reported that
one manufacturer had received 7,000 to 10,000 complaints about garage
door malfunctions. "