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In the news: U.S. wireless devices cause frequency fallout in Japan

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CrankyYankee

(From the "Stars & Stripes")

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Navy and Japanese authorities pinpointed the cause of another communication breakdown in Sasebo city on Wednesday: an American-made baby monitor.

This is the second time this month that baby monitors interfered with local cellular phone communications.

The problem is frequency. American cordless products — such as phones, monitors, walkie-talkies and ham radios — operate in the 900 megahertz range. This is illegal in Japan as that frequency is reserved for disaster prevention and cellular phone operation. Japanese cordless products operate on a different frequency.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=38939
 
Are you serious. You never heard of a baby monitor and your reading this board. Baby monitors have been around since the 80's and originally operated in the cordless phone band 46-47 mhz or 49 mhz. They can go quite aways. I had a friend who had a monitor for his child and picked up another signal of someone else's child across the street. They can be easily received on police scanners, later encrypted or digitized due to many similiar situations like my friend.
 
Hey Dude, It doesn't matter if it's made in Singapore, Indonesia, or Nepal, it's wired and coiled for US allocations designating the frequency for Baby monitors. If that's what you want to know. What's the got to do with where it's made.
 
The article is referring to devices that monitor AMERICAN MADE BABIES, or BABIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. Not American manufactured baby monitors. They are all made in China. Chinese baby monitors that are made for American babies. Monitors that work for Chinese families are made in Pskov, Russia, and packaged in Budepest. Why then can we get goods and services from China and Hong Kong, but not from Cuba? As Americans we have a base in Cuba, so we have set the precident for relationships with Cuba. Presumibly we get and use "Cuban Water" and they breathe "Cuban Air" but if one of us gets caught with a Cuban cigar we are fined 10,000 dollars. The government gets, we do not. That is the reason the baby monitors jam Japanese comms. It's because they are built for American families who shouldn't be monitoring thier babies in Japan..and if they feel the need to monnitor, purchase a Japanese baby monitor and hire a translator.
 
I didn't read the article I just clicked on the link briefly , and I didn't quite get your comment on baby monitors, but reading Jeff's post, now I get it. I just hope it wasn't that funny where you urinated in your pants and probably need a prostate check up. Have a nice day.
 
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