[mdlug] OT - IR jamming

[Brian Hurley]

> Dave Arbogast wrote:
>> I was just in DC with my top of the line SLR digital camera. I was in
>> the right place at the right time to take photos of a motorcade entering
>> the big house. I was about 12 feet from them and 16 feet from the inter
>> gate as it opened. (I shot for several newspapers in the day, so you
>> could say I'm not am amateur.)
>>
>> OK, shoot, shoot, shoot.  Daylight, immediate response pro camera.
>> What's the problem ?  This was a high raking official as the tailing
>> S.S. Tahoe had the back 3 windows open and 3 armored soldiers with
>> fingers on their machine guns. Yes, they gave me the evil eye for trying
>> to take their photo from 4 meters, but my camera refused to take their
>> photo.... it took many photos minutes before they arrived and many more
>> minutes after the iron gates closed behind them.
>>
>> The only explanation is IR / RF  jamming of my system. I wish I had gone
>> to manual focus as I do often, but I have never held down the shutter
>> release with no result.  The guys following up the rear were too cool.
>> None of the other motorcades we saw that day had the heavy artillery
>> exposed in the trailing SUV ready to fire.
>
> Very interesting.  It could be IR jamming the IR system.
>
> Alternate theory: have you ever noticed how the definition of
> a Class C consumer electronics device states, "this device
> *MUST* accept interference causing unwanted operation."
>
> I've seen this even on my top of the line HP calculators.

Tinfoil hat alert!

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Brian Hurley
Detroit Industrial Underground
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