{"id":7393,"date":"2010-07-03T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2010-07-03T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T17:25:16","slug":"rimpac-electromagnetic-interference-jams-remote-garage-door-openers-but-navy-feigns-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7393","title":{"rendered":"RIMPAC electromagnetic interference jams remote garage door openers, but Navy feigns ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invasion of Ke Awalau o Pu&#8217;uloa (Pearl Harbor) by ships, aircraft and personnel for RIMPAC exercises, the largest multinational war exercises in the world, may be causing a mysterious epidemic of dysfunctional remote garage door openers in Honolulu.\u00a0 The <a href=\" http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20100703_rimpac_v_remotes_an_open_and_shut_case.html\">Honolulu Star Advertiser<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mary Abe came home from a workout and shopping, pushed the button on  her garage door remote and &#8230; nothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">She then checked the  remote on a second car, and still nothing. Neither remote control would  operate the garage door at her Aiea home in Royal Summit, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;That&#8217;s  why we called the repair people, and the repairman said, &#8216;I&#8217;ve had so  many calls,'&#8221; Abe said. &#8220;He said that there&#8217;s nothing they could do  because there was some type of interference. He thought it might be (Rim  of the Pacific war games), because he started getting calls on  Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a recurring problem whenever significant numbers of military ships are in port. Apparently, the Navy uses 315 megahertz, the same frequency as many garage door openers.\u00a0 The spike in military communications and radar activity during exercises seems to be jamming the remote devices.<\/p>\n<p>But the Navy spokesperson denies responsibility:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we can pinpoint what&#8217;s causing what&#8217;s going on with the  garage door openers, because there&#8217;s a lot of electromagnetic activity.  It&#8217;s not just by the Navy,&#8221; said Agnes Tauyan, a spokeswoman for Navy  Region Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Being subjected to electromagnetic contamination without your knowledge or consent, one of the many joys of being under military occupation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invasion of Ke Awalau o Pu&#8217;uloa (Pearl Harbor) by ships, aircraft and personnel for RIMPAC exercises, the largest multinational war exercises in the world, may be causing a mysterious epidemic of dysfunctional remote garage door openers in Honolulu.\u00a0 The Honolulu Star Advertiser writes: Mary Abe came home from a workout and shopping, pushed the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIMPAC electromagnetic interference jams remote garage door openers, but Navy feigns ignorance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7395,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions\/7395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}