CBC:
A widespread problem with a mysterious radio signal that caused some garage doors in the Ottawa region to stop working has vanished.
The powerful radio signal causing the problem stopped transmitting on Thursday afternoon, around the time CBC News contacted the U.S. Embassy to ask if it knew anything about it.
The embassy denies that it had anything to do with it.
The signal was being transmitted at 390 megahertz, a frequency used by the Pentagon's new Land Mobile Radio System.
The same frequency is used by garage doors openers, which started to malfunction around the city about two weeks ago. A similar problem has popped up around military bases in the States.
The world's biggest garage door manufacturer, the Chamberlain group, took the problem seriously enough to fly design engineer Rob Keller to Ottawa from its Chicago headquarters, with machinery to try to track the signal.
But by the time he got there, the signal was gone.
Bizarre...
Hehe, its got to be the government! i mean, who else gets away with all the most dastardly things ever thought of?
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who else gets away with all the most dastardly things ever thought of?
That one kid two blocks down.
Anyway, let's ask bush about this!
Me: Bush, sir, what do you have to say about this?
Bush: TERRORISTS!
Me: o.o; They're trying to listen to government conversation by using that radio wave?
Bush: NO! They're making Kamakaze Garages!
Me: ...Kamakazi Garages?
Bush: IF YOU BUY A GARAGE, THE TERRORISTS ARE WINNING!
...Even more on topic: This is just the odd sort of things that happens sometimes, I say. o.o
That is definitely weird... One thing I don't understand though, is why does this Land Mobile Radio System even use that frequency? Isn't it not particularly smart to pick a frequency that's apparently already in widespread use, if it can cause problems like this?
Why don't we just pick 1337 megahurtz, set up a MoFo Radio station, and be done with it? Then thousands of kiddies with custom walkie-talkies would be forced to listen to us.
Anyways, this is obviously the work of aliens that are threatened by the strange human technology guarding our dwellings.
I sense a plot by we forumers to conquer the world!
Why don't we just pick 1337 megahurtz, set up a MoFo Radio station, and be done with it?
1337MHz is reserved for aeronautical radionavigation.
Okay, let's use 31337 MHz instead!
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Why don't we just pick 1337 megahurtz, set up a MoFo Radio station, and be done with it?1337MHz is reserved for aeronautical radionavigation.
forget them!
Someone better know what I'm talking about or I'll cry.
