(NAC) keyless entry mystery

[Jim Haseltine]

There are a number of areas in London where the same thing happens - phones
cut out too. Chief among them are Grosvenor Square and the area around the
new MI5 building. Strange isn't it? I mean, nobody would want to run
powerful ECM systems in central London would they?

:-)

Regards

Jim Haseltine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mullen, Shaun" <mullens at phillynews.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 5:04 PM
Subject: (NAC) keyless entry mystery


> Is this weird, or what?
>
> Shaun Mullen
> Yorklyn, DE
>
>
>     By ANGELA D. SMITH
>     Scripps Howard News Service
>
>     BREMERTON, Wash. - For a second time, residents and businesses here
> reported a mysterious failure of vehicles' keyless entry devices for
> several hours April 12.
>     The problem is similar to a more widespread phenomenon that
> occurred March 21-26. But this time only certain types of devices were
> affected, and the outages lasted just a few hours.
>     In March, the keyless entry failures began at the same time the
> aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson returned to Bremerton. Thursday, the
> outages began one day after the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at
> Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
>     Navy officials again denied any relationship between the outage and
> any ships at PSNS, and had no further explanation for the occurrence.
>     But in an interview two weeks ago, a government official familiar
> with a Federal Communications Commission probe into the outage said it
> was "very possible" that the problem could be related to military
> presence in the area.
>     Margaret Mull of East Bremerton said when she tried to open her
> 1992 Buick Le Sabre shortly after noon, her remote device was not
> working.
>     "Last time, I bought an extra remote for $80, and now neither of
> them are working," Mull said. "I'm lucky to have a key for mine."
>     While some auto dealers in Bremerton reported that they had no
> problems with the cars on the lots, others reported that certain
> vehicles were not responding or that there was a delay in response.
>     An official from the Federal Communications Commission declined to
> comment on the matter until investigation of the March incident was
> complete.
>
>     (Contact Angela D. Smith of The Sun in Bremerton, Wash., at
> http://www.thesunlink.com.)
>     AP-NY-04-13-01 1117EDT
>
>