- Something has caused almost all the devices to stop working
in Bremerton, WA, Joel Maimon of Port Ludlow first noticed the problem
when he arrived in Bremerton for work Thursday morning. No matter how many
times he clicked the remote keyless entry device for his car, it wouldn't
work.
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- He wasn't alone.
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- Art DeCamp, service manager for Haselwood Expo Buick
Pontiac dealership in Bremerton, first realized something was amiss Wednesday
afternoon when a flood of customers began calling with the same problem.
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- By Thursday, virtually every new car dealership in the
Bremerton-Port Orchard area was inundated with hundreds of similar calls
from upset customers. The outage also affected unsold new cars sitting
on their lots.
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- The cause of the bizarre problem was - and still is -
a mystery. No one so far has been able to explain why the remote keyless
entry systems on nearly every vehicle in the Bremerton-Port Orchard suddenly
stopped functioning at about the same time Wednesday afternoon and hasn't
worked since. "It's strange," DeCamp said. "A lot of people
are really upset."
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- Speculation about the cause has ranged from solar flares
to the Mir space station or possible interference from USS Carl Vinson
or some other local Navy ship.
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- But Navy officials say there's no evidence that a naval
vessel is causing the problem, and experts say such a localized problem
couldn't be caused by solar activity.
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- A spokesman for the Federal Communications Commission
in Washington, D.C., which regulates radio-controlled devices, said the
agency will look into the problem if it persists.
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- The malfunction, which seems to afflict all makes and
models of new vehicles, disappears as soon as a car is driven outside the
area. Although a few vehicles with remote entry seem to be immune to the
problem, the vast majority are affected by the outage.
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- Larry Sharrett, general manager of the Parr Auto Group,
said all new cars at the group's Bremerton dealerships are affected, whether
foreign and domestic.
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- "It's across the board," he said. "I simply
have no idea what's causing it." DeCamp said remote keyless entry
devices use a radio signal in the 300- to 500-megahertz range. When the
"lock" or "unlock" button is pushed on a handheld device,
it transmits a signal to a receiver in the car that locks or unlocks the
doors.
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- But in the Bremerton area, "something is keeping
it from working by not allowing the signal to do what it needs to do,"
DeCamp said.
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- The problem started at almost exactly the same time the
aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was returning home to Bremerton from seven
weeks at sea, causing service managers at some car dealerships to suspect
radio emissions from the ship are somehow to blame.
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- But the ship's communication experts checked the ship
over and could find no evidence that it was the source of the problem.
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- "We've checked all of our radars and communication
suites and the ship doesn't appear to be emitting any frequencies that
might have an effect on these remote control devices," said ship's
spokesman Lt. Matt O'Neal.
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- Daphne Burke, spokeswoman for Naval Station Bremerton,
said there is no evidence that any Navy ship or shore facility is to blame
for the mysterious malfunction.
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- "We've been looking ... but we have no answer,"
she said. "We're going to continue to check until the problem goes
away or until they find something out."
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- Solar flares, which were also suspected as a possible
cause, have been ruled out because of the pattern of the outage.
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- Joe Kunches, acting chief of the Space Weather Operations
Division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said intense
solar activity can cause global radio interference.
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- But it wouldn't cause such a localized problem, he said,
nor would it persist for more than an hour or two if solar activity was
the source, he said. And it definitely wouldn't continue after the sun
goes down.
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- John Winston, spokesman for the FCC in Washington, D.C.,
said the problem could be caused "by any one of a number of things."
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- He said if the problem persists, an agency investigator
will be assigned to look into it.
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- Meanwhile, Joel Maimon and thousands of other vehicle
owners are relearning how to use their car keys - and wondering how much
longer they will have to use them.
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- Reach reporter Lloyd A. Pritchett at (360) 792-9212 or
lpritchett@thesunlink.com
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- Comment
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- Mystery In Bremerton is no mystery at all - it is USAF
2025
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- From IZAKOVIC
dragutin.izakovic@ri.tel.hr
3-26-1
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- Hello Jeff - Bremerton mystery is not a mystery at all.
US NAVY has in operation VTRPE radar and IR/ visual/ radar satellite
detection shielding technology which is more-or less described in USAF's
2025 paper as a future thing. It is directly connected to the global chemtrails
spraying effort. I have had the opportunity to monitor this US NAVY technology
live during the USS SAIPAN aircraft carrier battle group stay in Rijeka
(CROATIA) last November/December. At the occasion, during the single week,
I have lost two modems. They got fried by the stray electromagnetic pulses.
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- It was like this: It is late November 2000, Thursday
night, 22:00 CET. Artificial cloud forming a still, continuous ceiling
from horizon to horizon (mountains and isles are circumferencing the Kvarner
bay on which shore I live) hanging there for last 10 days is at 500-800
m a.s.l. As usual. Horizontal chain thunder, w/o lightnings, goes on
for some 15 min.
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- As almost every evening/ early night in last 8 days.
Now it is some 5-7 km away, over the Kvarner bay, behind my back. I am
working on my website for 3-4 hours. 50 m from my house (5 floors) is
a 15 story building (we call it a skyscraper here, because our town of
Rijeka had a first skyscraper in Europe build in 19th century by a returnee
from the US with radioactive lighting protection device on the top of
it's roof. It is not healthy, but it works good.
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- Our power and communication lines are all installed
under the ground. There is no way that my roof/computer can be struck
with the lighting. So I continue working.
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- Somewhere above my house (one would say a few hundred
meters up) a thunderbolt hits. There is no lighting, so the skyscraper's
radioactive lighting rode device was not hit. Let's continue. The cursor
does not want to move. It seems that the computer has frozen.
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- Oh, it must have been because of the thunderbolt's invisible
lighting (invisible because it is above the cloud, catching up with the
freshly sprayed BaO). It has produced a emp which has induced a spike
in the mains (I have no filter), or in the phone line (I have a cable
4 m long going from the computer to the wall socket), so the bits and
the bytes got garbled. OK, let's reset. I needed the rest anyway.
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- System works. OK, let's go on line. My modem is whistling,
it is all OK.
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- Failed to connect. Internet provider should install
more modems. Here modem goes on again.
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- Connection failure. My modem talks but it cannot hear.
It is deaf as a pot. If I were it's designer I would have made it with
opto-couple on the line in. Americans. How much money, so much music.
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- Next day a new modem is installed. Old one is given
over to the supplier for servicing. Two days later the same story. Four
weeks after busted modems were returned as they were. I have tossed them
in the trash can.
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- More about this technology, which has fried the of majority
of electronic car locks in Bremerton in a single day can be found on my
USS SAIPAN page at: http://deepspace4.freeservers.com/pages/military/saipan/saipan.htm
and following the proposed links around my site. Unfortunately, USS
NASSAU battle group arrives next April in Rijeka. I expect the same story
again. This time I have a reserve modem ready. It is rather expensive
sport.
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- All the best.
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- IZAKOVIC, CROATIA
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