{"id":40504,"date":"2019-11-09T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40504"},"modified":"2019-11-09T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T12:57:07","slug":"secure-federal-facility-interfering-with-garage-door-openers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/secure-federal-facility-interfering-with-garage-door-openers\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure federal facility interfering with garage door openers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jakon Hays, who shares a link to the following article at Inside NOVA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A top-secret and secure federal government facility just northwest of Warrenton admitted this week it may be responsible for crippling dozens of garage door openers in two nearby subdivisions, FauquierNow.com’s Don Del Ross writes.<\/p>\n

More than 70 Olde Gold Cup and Silver Cup Estates homeowners have reported that openers started to fail about two weeks ago, according to Betty Compton, Olde Gold Cup\u2019s Neighborhood Watch group coordinator.<\/p>\n

Warrenton Training Center B, a classified federal facility, issued a statement this week saying its radios may be to blame.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is interesting. I’ve heard this is a very common complaint in\/around large broadcast facilities. Whether or not it’s always true is up for debate, but I should think it would be easy to test the RF environment in the area and confirm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jakon Hays, who shares a link to the following article at Inside NOVA: A top-secret and secure federal government facility just northwest of Warrenton admitted this week it may be responsible for crippling dozens of garage door openers in two nearby subdivisions, FauquierNow.com’s Don Del Ross writes. More than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8117,8118,4089,2651],"class_list":["post-40504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-inside-nova","tag-jakon-hays","tag-qrm","tag-radio-frequency-interference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-axi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57516,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/remember-the-good-old-days-with-a-lovely-cup-of-tea\/","url_meta":{"origin":40504,"position":0},"title":"Remember the good olde days with a lovely cup of tea","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"August 18, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all of the SWLing community, Fastradioburst23 here with news about Imaginary Stations on the shortwaves this Sunday 20th August 2023. 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