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Title: cell phones....
Post by: DummyLoad on January 19, 2011, 11:49:01 pm: am i the only one here who can pick out a T-mobile cell subscriber hanging around a tube amp?

chock, chock...tuka-tuk tuka-tuk tuka-tuk.

:grin:

/rant
driving home from DT austin... farding herself and yacking on cell phone with the interior light on, driving a big black GM SUV taking her half of the road down the center-line - fortunately it's a 4 lane - she was taking both lanes in one direction. and...it's early evening. i still don't believe my eyes. :rolleyes:
rant/

this (http://www.maggiesaustin.com/2010/03/22/g-raj-mahal-cafe/) is a good place to eat if y'all ever make down austin tx. way. :smiley:
Title: Re: cell phones....
Post by: supro66 on January 20, 2011, 07:51:41 am: A long long time ago say 1967

I was working for Sun Oil on the Oil Tankers

I was going up to New York from Philadelphia Pa on the New Jersey Turn Pike

There was this guy in an old Mercedes
Had sheet music on the dash and playing a guitar doing 70 MPH
I bet he is a big star now

[ no cell phones back then ]

I also saw a lady trying to back out of a parking spot trying to light a cigarette and using a cell phone
Title: Re: cell phones....
Post by: Frankenamp on January 20, 2011, 09:28:49 pm: ~> Did that when I had a Nextel electronic leash. It would make my computer speakers cluck and squawk about 3 seconds before a call came in...
Title: Re: cell phones....
Post by: thermion on January 21, 2011, 01:26:10 pm: Quote
driving home from DT austin...
Did she have state offical/ judge plates? I've seen some real creative "driving" techniques out of those folks.
I have ATT and my phone makes this same type of racket when it's close to my pickups.
Title: Re: cell phones....
Post by: bigsbybender on January 22, 2011, 12:29:55 am: AT&T and T-Mobile are GSM (Global Standard for Mobile phones) phones which are on an identical frequency range. All Mobile phones interfere with audio gear, but GSM phones have a pretty unique sound to their interference.

(I used to manage a shop that sold varying wireless technologies) I prefer GSM phones after trying them all.... but the old(er) CDMA (Sprint, Verizon, U.S. CEL) system has better rural coverage in the USA.

Nextel's used an IDEN standard, a similar interference noise but unique enough.

j.
Title: Re: cell phones....
Post by: GuitarPilot65 on March 11, 2011, 09:11:38 am: I have both T-Mobile and "chock, chock...tuka-tuk tuka-tuk tuka-tuk" when I'm on a call and the phone is near my computer speakers. :laugh: