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[cleggy]

I have noticed that sometimes I have to be stood right next to the CAR for the fob to operate the doors, even in some spots having to use the key. Normally it's fine, but the common denominator is the proximity to mobile phone masts.
Do others suffer this problem

[tidla]

yes. not sure its a phone mast tho.

same spot outside a supermarket, key just wont work.

[cleggy]

Yes, outside one supermarket in roughly the same place, another is outside the local shops and all I can see is a bloody great green mast.

[TheBoy]

Omega ones are 433Mhz, and its a pretty packed frequency.

[cleggy]

Omega ones are 433Mhz, and its a pretty packed frequency.

So the likely suspect?

[Terbs]

Try putting the metal stalk of the key against your head and press the fob...increases the signal. Think there was a thread on here about doing this. It also increases the range.

And before you say it doesn't work...it most certainly does !!!!!!  My grandkids think its great and are always seeing how far from the car they can get

[TheBoy]

Omega ones are 433Mhz, and its a pretty packed frequency.

Video senders, wireless alarms, anything that needs a wireless connection that doesn't use Wifi or Bluetooth.

[Nick W]

When I first started this recovery job, we were picking up several Astras a week from Horsted Retail park outside Toys R Us.  All with suspected alarm/immobiliser faults that mysteriously stopped when the car got to its destination. This problem suddenly stopped about six months after it started. We suspect that something being worked on at BAE systems about 1/4 mile away was affecting them.

We still pick up similar problems with aftermarket alarms(and Subarus for some reason!) from the hospital, move them to the bottom of the road and have no problems.

[the alarming man]

Omega ones are 433Mhz, and its a pretty packed frequency.

Video senders, wireless alarms, anything that needs a wireless connection that doesn't use Wifi or Bluetooth.

wireless alarm have not been on 433Mhz for quite some time.....Due to the fact it is a pretty packed place....that oh and Europe got involved

[the alarming man]

When I first started this recovery job, we were picking up several Astras a week from Horsted Retail park outside Toys R Us.  All with suspected alarm/immobiliser faults that mysteriously stopped when the car got to its destination. This problem suddenly stopped about six months after it started. We suspect that something being worked on at BAE systems about 1/4 mile away was affecting them.

We still pick up similar problems with aftermarket alarms(and Subarus for some reason!) from the hospital, move them to the bottom of the road and have no problems.

that intresting nick as asda Rochester was the only place the omega fob never work...put it down to airport but forgot about the BAE mob

[TheBoy]

Omega ones are 433Mhz, and its a pretty packed frequency.

Video senders, wireless alarms, anything that needs a wireless connection that doesn't use Wifi or Bluetooth.

wireless alarm have not been on 433Mhz for quite some time.....Due to the fact it is a pretty packed place....that oh and Europe got involved

Plenty of old ones still in use.  But the point I was making is, as well as the short term signalling bursts such as car remotes, the frequency has plenty of constant transmissions.

[the alarming man]

tbh not too sure about the B&Q specials as they are not made to the same standards as our's have to be

[omega3000]

I have noticed that sometimes I have to be stood right next to the CAR for the fob to operate the doors, even in some spots having to use the key. Normally it's fine, but the common denominator is the proximity to mobile phone masts.
Do others suffer this problem

Yep same here  I remember being able to open the Granada from about 10 cars away 

[TheBoy]

I have noticed that sometimes I have to be stood right next to the CAR for the fob to operate the doors, even in some spots having to use the key. Normally it's fine, but the common denominator is the proximity to mobile phone masts.
Do others suffer this problem

Yep same here  I remember being able to open the Granada from about 10 cars away 

Some fobs are just better. No idea why. A colleague vec-b key had a good (for GM) range, so when he traded it in, I swapped fobs over, and reprogrammed

[The Sheriff]

I have a modern GM vehicle. The range on the fob is amazing. I asked wifey to stand next to the car on the fifth floor of a multi-storey and zapped it from the ground floor. It worked.