Most people report that the mysterious outages have stopped.
A mass failure of keyless remote entry devices in the Bremerton-Port Orchard area apparently has ended, but a Federal Communications Commission probe of the outage could continue for some time. At the same time, circumstantial evidence mounted that military electronic gear, such as radar or radio jamming equipment, could be to blame for the interference. A specialist on electromagnetic interference said Tuesday that a very powerful signal would be required to disable remote entry devices throughout the area. The specialist, John K. Daher, senior researcher with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, said aircraft carriers and other Navy ships such as those homeported in Bremerton carry a host of gear that emit a microwave signal strong enough to cause such a problem. Such equipment includes radar, electronic warfare gear, radio-jamming equipment and some types of navigation gear, he said.