Your Radio is Jamming My Garage!

As part of the overall effort to beef up homeland security, the Defense Department has been deploying "land mobile radios" to military installations across the country. But, GAO reports, it turns out those radios operate in the same frequency range that many garage door openers have used for years. Homeowners near military bases have complained, but, GAO notes, because the garage-door openers are unlicensed devices, their users must simply live with whatever interference they experience from authorized users of the same spectrum.