v551 and speaker noise?

I noticed that my little PC speakers at work started making a strange
noise occasionally - after I started wearing this phone all the time.
It would last a second or two and be a couple of static-like noises or
chirps. It doesn't even matter if the volume is turned all the way
off. I haven't tried turning off the power but I will now. It's hard
to prove a negative though.

Now a coworker has pointed out that his speakers make the same noise,
only when I'm in the room. Very weird. It doesn't happen often, maybe
a few times a day or sometimes not at all. But still, it is odd and
does appear to be related to the phone.

Anyone know any mechanism that could explain this?

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In article <[email protected]>,
dgk <[email protected]> wrote:
>I noticed that my little PC speakers at work started making a strange
>noise occasionally - after I started wearing this phone all the time.
>It would last a second or two and be a couple of static-like noises or
>chirps. It doesn't even matter if the volume is turned all the way
>off. I haven't tried turning off the power but I will now. It's hard
>to prove a negative though.
>
>Now a coworker has pointed out that his speakers make the same noise,
>only when I'm in the room. Very weird. It doesn't happen often, maybe
>a few times a day or sometimes not at all. But still, it is odd and
>does appear to be related to the phone.
>
>Anyone know any mechanism that could explain this?

This question has been asked (and responded to) on this newsgroup at least
a half-dozen times in the last 3 months. You are hearing your telephone
transmitting periodically as it checks in with the nearby tower. Your phone
is a radio transmitter, and GSM data transmitted is such that it can be receivedby unshielded nearby electromagnetic devices.

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 18:19:28 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Mike S.)
wrote:

>
>In article <[email protected]>,
>dgk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>I noticed that my little PC speakers at work started making a strange
>>noise occasionally - after I started wearing this phone all the time.
>>It would last a second or two and be a couple of static-like noises or
>>chirps. It doesn't even matter if the volume is turned all the way
>>off. I haven't tried turning off the power but I will now. It's hard
>>to prove a negative though.
>>
>>Now a coworker has pointed out that his speakers make the same noise,
>>only when I'm in the room. Very weird. It doesn't happen often, maybe
>>a few times a day or sometimes not at all. But still, it is odd and
>>does appear to be related to the phone.
>>
>>Anyone know any mechanism that could explain this?
>
>This question has been asked (and responded to) on this newsgroup at least
>a half-dozen times in the last 3 months. You are hearing your telephone
>transmitting periodically as it checks in with the nearby tower. Your phone
>is a radio transmitter, and GSM data transmitted is such that it can be receivedby unshielded nearby electromagnetic devices.

Thanks for answering for the 7th time then. But I always scan before
asking questions and no headers with "noise" or "speaker" appeared. In
fact my ISP has messages back to 2003 for this group and I scanned
them all.

But at least I know now that it is the phone.

In article <[email protected]>, sonicechoes-
[email protected] says...
> Thanks for answering for the 7th time then. But I always scan before
> asking questions and no headers with "noise" or "speaker" appeared. In
> fact my ISP has messages back to 2003 for this group and I scanned
> them all.
>
> But at least I know now that it is the phone.
>
>
forte might allow a search of headers and bodies, so many people use
stupid nodiscript subjects that searching headers (subject) is kinda
useless these days.