HAS MY PADLOCK BEEN PICKED?

[unjust]

so if you've engaged a 2 car tail you're more realistically looking at defeating a floating box, which is not a trivial feat. a sacrificial tail will drop back, but if someone can afford the 3-5 cars necessary to tail you, the smart money is on a broadcasting in vehicle tag that will mean they can be a half mile away, and with burst transmission, you're going to need $$$ countermeasures to detect, much less defeat that.

have you actually taken your remote apart and looked at all of the electronic items within it? you didn't address circuit failure w.in the unlock send issue, or voltage variance w.in that or the microcontroller which controls that. you also haven't' mentioned the receiver circuit which could have glitches that could also bork the system.

as a skeptic, my money is still on an annoying set of coincidences.

[winniety]

maybe try again

[kiwifighterinuk]

This electronic's is all beyound anything I can do myself.

However it still does not explain why when using the GPS and GPRS jammer all my locks work and dont open themselves.

But when the jammers are off 'pop' go the locks!

So the jammers are blocking a frequency that is interfering with my car's locks in the frequency that these jammer's are designed for GPS and GPRS

As my car locks are not even close to the jammer's frequency it seem's pretty easy to determine that it is in fact a car tracker

Cheers

[kiwifighterinuk]

By the way the first jammer a gps L1 combined with gprs jammer did the job for a few weeks then i assume they changed the tracker as only GPS L2 and L5 jammer works / stops the locks opening now.

I dont use the gprs and GPS L1 jammer anymore as there is no point...if they hear my conversations or awlful singing in the car good luck to them lol

i hate snoopers

[raimundo]

driving with a jammer, thats interesting, in movies, the cia drives around in convoys of SUV's and cell phones get jammed before the convoy arrives, (that was in the recent Miami Vice movie, not a real good movie)

in any case, driveing with a jammer on is no way to prevent tracking. the jammer is a strong signal and might be covering a band of the cell phone frequencies, it may be even broader than just those frequencies and that is why it james the keyfob too. you may want to try your cell phone, frequency counter, to see how broadband that jammer is and to see how far away your cell phone is affected by it.

driving around with a jammer will eventually get you in trouble with whoever polices the radio frequencies, In the US that would be the FCC who also certify devices under FCC part 15 to see that reasonable precautions are taken to prevent stray emmissions. that usually means a spray of aluminum paint to create a faraday cage out of the plastic box.
Your neighbors will eventually notice that you drive up just as thier tv's go nutz, jammers are not subtle and they can be easily tracked, use your cell phone to track yours and see if the reception bars allow you to know when its close to the jammer.

In any case, if I were tracking you in the UK, I would leave your car out of it and go for your cell phone, as I said, companies sell the software to track your phone in the UK.

[kiwifighterinuk]

Yes I am aware that they can track me by my cell phone by GPRS.

Some of the information you mentioned contradicts the information I have??.

ie at this point in time my information is that a low frequency signal jammer cannot be tracked.

It can be located using a RF detector but you have to be close (10 meters ) depending on the jammer signal. I agree jammers are in general bad news....according to news reports used in crime and a general interference...the jammer's I used were low frequency jammers and only a radius of no more than 15 meters...these would not effect a TV, cell phones yes, gps yes but only in the 15 meter range.

As I mentioned in a previous post I have stopped using them since finding out the legal issue's involved.

The jammers have a good use but that is for the military and 'agents' who need to jam signal frequencies to stop explosions and chit chat between the bad guys at critical times etc thanks for your comments...anyways maybe you can explain how they can locate a low frequency jammer from a distance ie over a mile?

Thank you

[Buggs41]

Lower frequencies will 'bounce' off clouds, earth, or water. This is called 'skip.'
High frequencies require 'line of sight' between antenna's.
Don't forget about the use of 'harmonic' frequencies either. They can jump in bandwidths that they are not designed to operate in.

[Evan]

The jammers have a good use but that is for the military and 'agents' who need to jam signal frequencies to stop explosions and chit chat between the bad guys at critical times etc thanks for your comments...anyways maybe you can explain how they can locate a low frequency jammer from a distance ie over a mile?

@kiwifighterinuk:

That's easy mate, by operating any kind of jammer that disrupts cell phone signals someone with access to the back end of the cellular network can accurately plot your location (at the center of the "dead zone") the same way the ground stations on the cellular network can be used to triangulate the location of a hand set...

They can be VERY accurate with this as there are likely hundreds or thousands of data points, the cellular network registers when it lost contact with each hand set and when each hand set reconnects to the network once again... Even allowing for the uncontrolled movements of the people whose cellular service is disrupted your direction of travel and speed can be easily determined...

~~ Evan

[MacGyver101]

the jammer's I used were low frequency jammers and only a radius of no more than 15 meters...

Your jammer may have been a low power jammer, but if it's jamming cell phones and GPS signals, then it's not a low frequency jammer.

Frequency and signal strength are unrelated: it's the same as asking "how far away will a red light shine?"... the answer has far more to do with the brightness of the light than its colour.

Having said that, the cheap cellphone-sized jammers sold on-line don't put out much more power than a cellphone does (nor do they have do: they work by disrupting the uplink from legitimate cellphones), so they're hard to locate with just cell towers. (I used to help design radio systems for cell towers.) The "E911" standard in North America only requires that cell providers be able to locate you within 300m of your actual location (an area of about 17.5 acres) within six minutes of you dialing 911 from your cellphone... and they've had to keep deferring that requirement, because the cell carriers aren't yet able to do that everywhere for cellphones that don't have built-in GPS.

Anyhow... all of that aside, the only reasonable relationship I could imagine between your cell jammer and your doors mysteriously unlocking would be if the button for the remote keyfob for your car was malfunctioning, and periodically sending "unlock" signals -- and you're lucky enough that your "cell" jammer was also blocking your keyfob signals, and preventing it from unlocking the doors. (GPS and cellphones operate a long, long way away from car remote frequencies... but those cheap jammers just blast noise all over the bands, so who knows.) Try taking the batteries out of your keyfob, and see if the unlocking problem goes away.

[kiwifighterinuk]

I have the standard UK car locking frequency at 433.92 MHz, Some modern expensive cars I understand use a higher frequency but mine is the standard 433.92 MHz.

I don’t see how a GPS jammer can interfere with the above signal, in fact all the evidence I have obtained is that when I used the GPS jammer my car locks worked as normal.
That suggests to me the GPS jammer was stopping something interfering with my car door locks….I would call that a GPS car tracker that has been hardwired into my cars electrical system. (my car has no sat nav)

Given all of the other 'Car garage door lock malfuntioned or picked' ‘been followed’ ‘phone tap’ it’s the only thing that it can be.

Oh well someone spent alot of money to find out I have a boring average life....now thats got to be a waste of UK tax payers money.

When I borrowed the Jammers I really thought myself or my families safety may be at risk. But in the end I concluded it had to be a large investigation team.
BTW in the end I identified so many of their operatives / investigators they started using and including very old people in the tail. Who would suspect Grandpa and Grandma right.....spotted them to. If they offer me a job I can tell them how not to get spotted and get Gramps and Gran back on the golf course having some fun lol

Thanks for all your posts, Very knowledgable people indeed and I appreciate your help…..maybe someone will know my local snooper who can come and hard wire the tracker in without interfering with the door locks or better still take it off and put it on someones car who is actually doing something illegal

[unjust]

actually i DID answer why using the jammer stopped the issue. i'll repeat myself though.

if your keyfob or the receiver is malfunctioning, either a blocked signal, or garbage signal could confuse the receiver and it won't unlock.

[kiwifighterinuk]

its just not possable

[kiwifighterinuk]

When I say its just not possable I am referring to anyone disputing this....I have the standard UK car locking frequency at 433.92 MHz, Some modern expensive cars I understand use a higher frequency but mine is the standard 433.92 MHz.

I don’t see how a GPS jammer can interfere with the above signal, in fact all the evidence I have obtained is that when I used the GPS jammer my car locks worked as normal.
That suggests to me the GPS jammer was stopping something interfering with my car door locks….I would call that a GPS car tracker that has been hardwired into my cars electrical system. (my car has no sat nav)

Given all of the other 'Car garage door lock malfuntioned or picked' ‘been followed’ ‘phone tap’ it’s the only thing that it can be.

Oh well someone spent alot of money to find out I have a boring average life....now thats got to be a waste of UK tax payers money.

When I borrowed the Jammers I really thought myself or my families safety may be at risk. But in the end I concluded it had to be a large investigation team.
BTW in the end I identified so many of their operatives / investigators they started using and including very old people in the tail. Who would suspect Grandpa and Grandma right.....spotted them to. If they offer me a job I can tell them how not to get spotted and get Gramps and Gran back on the golf course having some fun lol

[MacGyver101]

Oh, your remote works at 433.92 MHz... why didn't you say so? That could have saved a lot of discussion time.

(Obviously, if it was a 433.93 MHz remote, then your problem would have been something boring and obvious -- like a malfunctioning keyfob, or some moisture in the electrical switch -- but not with a 433.92 MHz remote.)

Anyhow, glad to hear you identified their operatives, and the surveillance operation wrapped itself up in a matter of days. Given the timing, I wouldn't worry about it any further: it was probably just an MI5 training exercise, in advance of the Olympic Games.

[Squelchtone]

I'm still waiting on the photograph of your phone tap that you found outside your house.. I personally think you belong in the looney bin, but whatever floats your boat.

next time guys, lets not feed the troll, what a waste of everyone's time.

Squelchtone