Digital Cell phone noise on pro.96

[SCPD]

when i drive down the freeway sometimes i get the same interference noise on my pro.96 (you know what you get for using a gms cell phone in front of your computer speakers when you dial out or receive a call before picking up.)........
it seems to pick up the signal when my cell phone is near or not.
Anyone had the some problem ?
should i send it up for the 1.3/ 1.4 upgrade ? have 1.75 month left on the 1 year warrantee.
sf

 

[loumaag]

It has nothing to do with the upgrade so that won't solve the problem. Most of us just live with it or selective use of the ATT button helps.

 

[SCPD]

i don't think it can be solved with the att feature because it happens on differed frequencies
but then i'm really new to all of this 8)

 

[brandon]

I notice this almost every day. Thankfully it only lasts for a few seconds.

My bigger problem is driving in downtown San Diego. 800 MHz comes in horrible down there!

 

[Al42]

i don't think it can be solved with the att feature

It can't. TDMA (GSM uses a TDMA air interface) interference is usually picked up directly by the speaker. Put the phone near a computer speaker and you'll get the same interference. (We actually use that "feature" when programming new cell phones - put the phone near the computer speaker [within a foot or 2] and you can do something else, and still know when the phone's been updated.)

 

[PhilJSmith67]

On the road, I occasionally get interference from what I can only hypothesize to be vehicles or pedestrians with GSM/TDMA phones in my proximity. The sound is quite unique.

Try travelling the same stretch of road with the GSM/TDMA phone turned off. You would be surprised how many feet the interference from a phone can affect a scanner or other receiver. That distance can very greatly depending on the frequency you're tuned to. Although rare, once in a while I get interference from my CDMA/1xRTT phone at certain frequencies (usually VHF-Low -- nowhere near 800/900/1900 MHz!) from several feet away.

 

[Voyager]

when i drive down the freeway sometimes i get the same interference noise on my pro.96 (you know what you get for using a gms cell phone in front of your computer speakers when you dial out or receive a call before picking up.)........
it seems to pick up the signal when my cell phone is near or not.
Anyone had the some problem ?
should i send it up for the 1.3/ 1.4 upgrade ? have 1.75 month left on the 1 year warrantee.
sf

I've also seen the same issue with two-way radios. The scanner, oddly enough, does not like strong RF fields.

Joe M.