Any ideas (other than an alarm clock, cell phone, fire alarm or CO2 detector). We live in a mansion (large appartments in Japan) and have the entire 3rd floor so I know its not the neighbors to my side (possible beneath us?) I can isolate the sound to the master bedroom in a corner but cant find its exact location….driving my wife nuts…she woke me up to hear it and now guess what…driving me nuts…thanks honey!

Driving us crazy. Send replies to willmarjenhoff@msn.com if you have any ideas.

In 1974 President Richard Nixon signed Executive Order 11785 which, in part, authorized a certain department of the U.S. government to require manufacturers of electronic equipment to include sub-assemblies on their PCB’s to acquire, store and transmit said stored data to this certain government department.

Fortunately for us, at the time President Nixon signed the order, the technology of the day was unable to meet this obligation. Sadly technology finally caught up with this insidious executive order and, for the last decade or so, all electrical devices available to the average consumer HAVE included the necessary components.

The beeping noises you THINK you hear are, in fact, the result of flaws in the microcode contained in these devices, and that both mathematical probability and “Chaos Theory” tells us are inevitable, that cause the odd transient electrical flow to be sent to the “beeper” circuit in whatever device may contain them.

These devices have their data upload functions triggered by stealth UAV’s flying over the country at regular intervals, almost always at night. Stealth aircraft are required as the small size and low power requirements necessary to hide the sub-assemblies within most devices preclude direct data transmission to satellite receivers in low earth orbits.

No effective means have yet been found, save not owning ANY electrical devices or appliances, by which the public can stop this acquisition and transmission of their highly personal information. The average citizen remains totally unaware of this government intrusion into their lives and would be justifiably outraged if they were.

…and it really does – about once a day at about the same time for about a week, then it shuts up for a few months, then does it again.

House wired, battery backup unit (replaced batteries when this first started so I know it’s not that).

Wonder if anyone has strong radio equipment around me?

-X.

Eric – my flatmates girlfriend has this really irritating mobile phone – everytime she gets a missed call or text message, the thin will make one sharp beep, this continues somewhat randomly (probably every couple of minutes) until she reads the message.

When this first started happening (she’d leave it here and i’d be working all on my own in the office) i was totally siked out – like you i first thought it was one of the smoke detectors but nope.

This went on for weeks, hunting in draws etc until i finally found the damm thing.

Now when i goes off, i turn the thing off and hide it in a draw so she can’t find it ;)