Monday 26th November 2001

Immobilised by Radio

Are radio transmitters responsible for immobilised vehicles?

---

[wob]

Reminds me of a previous job working for a company making wireless patient monitoring equipment. Our system worked on the same frequency as many alarm blippers. On some days when we were testing we would see plenty of pissed off drivers failing to open their cars if they were parked within a 20m radius of the transmitter.

We couldn't admit that we were causing the problem because at that time we didn't have the proper radio licence , although we did usually turn it off if we saw the AA van turn up...

[jmorgan]

One area near a transmitter I cannot arm the car (several attempts to arm), disarm OK though.

[raceboy]

Silverstone, and my Clifford alarm do not get on well!
Good job my Chimps old enough to have key holes.
The best bit is it now no longer works at the alarm fitters place, because of Radio station across the road.
Aparently Clifford have now changed the frequency but it can't be changed on mine.

[Greenv8s]

quote:
Silverstone, and my Clifford alarm do not get on well!
Good job my Chimps old enough to have key holes.
The best bit is it now no longer works at the alarm fitters place, because of Radio station across the road.
Aparently Clifford have now changed the frequency but it can't be changed on mine.

At the Debden sprint circuit, several of us have had trouble starting while the ATC radar was pointing at us. Not a radio/imob problem, they would turn over but not fire. We guessed the RF was upsetting the ECU. Bearing in mind all this fuss about milliwatt radiation from phones, it makes you wonder what all that radiation was doing to *us*.

Cheers,
Peter Humphries