[Scan-DC] Feds admit radios interfere with garage door openers

[~Bill]

https://www.army.mil/article/106123/frequencies_conflict_with_garage_openers



-----Original Message-----
From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILSON HULLEY
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 5:46 PM
To: Mark Cobbeldick; Mark Cobbeldick via Scan-DC; Bill Dunn; Robert Eisner
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Feds admit radios interfere with garage door openers

GARAGE DOOR OPENERS CONTINUE TO BE AN ONGOING PROBLEM.........A REAL SHAME IN THE 21ST CENTURY...NO ONE SEEMS "TO GIVE A DAMN" ABOUT THIS CONTINUING ISSUE. THE OVERHEAD DOOR OPENER PEOPLE CONTINUE TO IGNORE REPEATED ATTEMPTS TO CORRECT THEIR ERRORS...A REAL SHAME...
W H HULLEY
CHEVY CHASE, MD


> On November 19, 2019 at 9:48 PM Mark Cobbeldick via Scan-DC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I mostly encountered a 10 MHz offset for repeaters in the 378-400 band.
> 
> HOWEVER..... In some areas, other offsets were used on a frequency by frequency basis.  Usually when coordinating with Mexico and Canada.  In those situations, at a single RF Site, some repeaters might be a standard 10 MHz offset, and other offset pairings might be what can be accommodated, and look bizarre to someone not familiar with the situation. 
> 
> BTW: 
> Motorola has major headaches on the NCR system were all the frequency offsets at a single site were not the same exact offset.
> For some weird reason, Moto software (at that time) couldn’t accommodate different repeater offsets for the same site.
> All of them had to be 10 MHz, or 12 MHz, or whatever.
> Sites were Repeater 1 was 10 MHz offset, and Repeater 2 might be a 13.2 MHz offset was outside of their ability for several years.
> 
> 
> (I also ran into some wild repeater frequency pairings for repeaters 
> on VHF-Highband on the State of Maine P-25 system, to de-conflict with 
> Canada.)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ===================================
> Mark Cobbeldick, KB4CVN
> Monroe, VA
> ===================================
> 
> My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.
> 
> -
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Dunn [mailto:ecps92 at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:32
> To: Robert Eisner; Mark Cobbeldick
> Cc: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Feds admit radios interfere with garage door 
> openers
> 
> Generally by rule it is + 10 Mhz
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
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