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Mon, May 24, 2004

Garage Door Is Open?

Must Mean The Squadron's In The Pattern

So you're sitting at home, minding your own business, when suddenly your garage door flies open. You remember the remote is in the car and the car is in the garage -- unoccupied -- and you go outside to see what happened. There's no one around. The street is deserted. The neighborhood is quiet, except for a single aircraft high above.

Yup. Blame the plane.

Homeowners in the Niceville, Valparaiso and the Crestview (FL) report their garage doors are flapping like paper fans on a hot day in church. The reason? A new $5.5 million radio system by Motorola, which is being tested at nearby Eglin AFB, is jamming their garage door openers.

And the onus to fix this little bug may be on the homeowners, not the Air Force. An FCC official says the new radio system is working within its assigned frequencies.

The problem threatens to spread when the Navy begins testing the same radio system at its base in Pensacola later this year.

(Perhaps we're looking at this the wrong way. When the garage door goes up, you know the Fleet is in...)

FMI: www.af.mil

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