Nextel Phone Interfearing With Scanner

[N1XDS]

Does anyone notice with they're nextel phone when you leave it near
the scanner it will make a noise in the scanner speaker like when your about to receive a phone call you will hear it before the phone rings

 

[Joseph11]

Does anyone notice with they're nextel phone when you leave it near
the scanner it will make a noise in the scanner speaker like when your about to receive a phone call you will hear it before the phone rings

A ringback tone?

 

[funkytones]

yea... its a "clickyity click click clickyity click click" or somthing... i hear it on my PD radio before my phone rings too...

 

[N1XDS]

yeah like ring tone when your phone rings

 

[Joseph11]

Do you mean the "bump, bump, bump, bump bump bump, bump" sounds?

 

[scansomd]

I have a NEXTEL phone and I always know it's going to ring before it actually does due to that noise.

It also makes the noise across my computer speakers.

 

[Dubbin]

Great now I have to get a Nextel pone just to see if this happens bye bye Verizon (NOT)

 

[N_Jay]

Ticking, Helecopter sound, and about 100 other names.

Just part of the fun of iDEN.

 

[nd5y]

Lately around here I have been hearing the distinctive ticking & buzzing
noises that GSM phones can cause on several public safety systems.
I guess a lot of the dispatchers have GSM pnones now and the consoles
or headsets seem to be very susceptible to interference.
I would have thought stuff like that would have better EMI protection.

Tom

 

[N_Jay]

Lately around here I have been hearing the distinctive ticking & buzzing
noises that GSM phones can cause on several public safety systems.
I guess a lot of the dispatchers have GSM pnones now and the consoles
or headsets seem to be very susceptible to interference.
I would have thought stuff like that would have better EMI protection.

Tom

50 Hz is GSM

30 Hz / 60 Hz is TDMA

11 Hz is iDEN

 

[nmfire10]

Any phone that uses GSM, TDMA, or iDen will cause that. iDen is the most profound. It seems to mess with anything that has a speaker. It does the same thing to car radios and dispatch consoles.

 

[flyingwolf]

Place your phone under your your monitor and watch what happens when you get a phone call. I keep my cell under my monitor and I always know when a call is comming in. I see my monitor flicker and hear the thump, thump, thump. in the speakers and on the scanners at least 10 seconds before the phone actually rings.

 

[N1XDS]

I always have my near the scanner it makes the thump noise...I received
the noise one time than the phone ring 2 mins later that was pretty cool

 

[N_Jay]

I always have my near the scanner it makes the thump noise...I received
the noise one time than the phone ring 2 mins later that was pretty cool

2 min would not be the same call.

You phone does registration updates occasionally also.

 

[N1XDS]

Thats true...phone updates with software that interfears with the scanner

 

[W4KRR]

The noise that the Nextel makes on the computer speakers has nothing to do with whether or not you're about to receive a call. Mine does it a lot, even when I don't get a call. The noise comes whenever the phone is in communication with the tower.

 

[dynamitedjs]

being a dj and doing a gig, it would do that through my sound system. I had to get rid of Nexthell........

I also remember when I was visiting someone at the hospital, while using the 2 way it would remotely turn the tv on an off.

I could also walk in to the local drug store (CVS, Walgreens etc) and key up the 2 way and it would make a horrible static sound on their Muzak system. All you could hear was the static and no music.

While listening to the am/fm radio, I alway knew when the phone was going to ring when the clicketys came over the speakers.

 

[nmfire10]

It's quite the paradox. Everyone and their mother in public safety wants or already has one... yet at times I've been tempted to hang a sign on the door into the communications area saying "NO NEXTELS BEYOND THIS POINT. VIOLATORS WILL BE BEATEN."