Took a nice drive today to Mt Wilson Observatory through the Angeles National Forest twisties.

GF and I got out at the Observatory parking lot to stroll around - first time there and noticed the electronics reservation towers. Read up on it and it's one of the largest apparently, with radio, tv and microwave towers.

Anyway, in the event some other socal 6speeder drives up there, heads up that whatever frequency Porsche key remotes work on, it gets jammed and can't operate that close to the towers. After I got out I couldn't lock my doors with my remote and tried couple times until I clued in it was the tower signals jamming it.

Interesting though that lots of other "lesser" cars were unaffected. Saw ppl locking and unlocking just fine. The access road that connects Mt Wilson to the main Angeles National highway is about 5 miles - just to test how close the jamming range is I stopped about half way down and tower signals was still too strong to allow my remote to work. At the base of the access road 5 miles down, it was fine.

 

Same problem at Staples in Needham, MA, local TV towers must affect system.

 

My key remote never works near any place that has an automated door system.