Cell phones & Metal Detectors

I use a Nokia model 7610 cell phone, the GSM variety, but when I get a call coming in my Ace250 starts sounding off like I have just located a 50 penny pocket spill .................

Wonder if anyone else has run into this, not really a problem, I just moved my cell phone to my back pocket while metal detecting ..............

...yeah, those cell phones are radios, and output EMI just like most electronic devices. Depending on the frequency and the power of the individual phone...they will make the detector talk to you!

Originally Posted by dooby

I use a Nokia model 7610 cell phone, the GSM variety, but when I get a call coming in my Ace250 starts sounding off like I have just located a 50 penny pocket spill .................

Wonder if anyone else has run into this, not really a problem, I just moved my cell phone to my back pocket while metal detecting ..............

[bigbillinsc]

chuck hit it on the head... MD control boxxes are not shielded from from RF energy. when manufacturers went to plastic housing they opened up the machines to some unexpected EMI/RFI noise. me personaly... will not carry cell phone in pant pocket, ever.

put some ripe grapes in a micro wave.

i aint saying cell phones have enough power to do that. but i aint gonna risk it.

funny thing is i have no probs holding it next to my brain when talking on it...

GO FIGURE

HAPPY HUNTIN YALL

I use multiple detectors and I put my cell phone in my pouch.

The pouch is on my right side and I swing the machine with my right hand.

So far I haven't had any trouble like that at all.

Guess I have just been lucky.

[PAPPY]

Boobie...When we were at Felt's Park I wondered why you dug that 14" hole in the ground...All that time it was your cell phone ringing

I have a ACE250 and carry my cell in my left pocket and the md in my right hand...never had a problem.

Originally Posted by bigbillinsc

chuck hit it on the head... MD control boxes are not shielded from from RF energy.

put some ripe grapes in a micro wave.

I am getting too old to worry about grapes, I am waiting for grandkids now .......

What I found out with some research today is the GSM variety of phones, one will get interference through speakers on your computer if your phone is laying by the speakers anytime a call or text msg comes in ..................

Boobie, did you dig one of them little holes ..............

been there, done that, ended up with a beer can, I wouldn't have felt so bad if it had been full ............

Hey Pappy
It was just a
REAL
BIG
COIN

[weldermark]

my cell makes my DFX talk,it also turns on my motion sensitive porch light
in the morning when i get ready to go to work?????.
i'm guessing it's the gig's.


Mark

[The TINMAN]

I wear my cell on the left side & swing right handed and haven't had a problem so far. Could be my bit of a belly acts as a shield. Looks like another reason not to diet.

The TINMAN