Cell phone question?

[motorman587]

I just bought the cable to hook up my Motorola i60, with Nextel service. I get a real bad clicking noice with or without the motor running. Any suggestions?

[hammer]

What kind of intercomm do you have and where are you placing your phone. I have the VOICE II and a motorola 551 and with the phone in the oddment box I get a bad buzz over the phone. When I hold the phone away from the box it works fine,so to fix the problem ,I got Seirra Electronics to make me a 40" cable and ran it out under the stingray to the handlebar cover and mounted it next to the throttle.

[motorman587]

Inter com is not the newest, but the kind before that. Which I think is the VOICE II also. When I used my wife's phone it was not that bad. I think you are right about moving it away from the batwing, as I moving it around it seemed that in some stops the noise was not that bad.

[Steve_R]

I just bought the cable to hook up my Motorola i60, with Nextel service. I get a real bad clicking noice with or without the motor running. Any suggestions?

John,

If what you are hearing is a clicking sound, it is the i60 seeking the NexTel network. Mine does that on occasion, usually just before I receive a call or after the phone is out of network. It clicks through the intercom. I've had it affect my truck radio as well as the Autocom on Red Rover. My original i1000, i90 and current i730 have all affected the truck.

YMMV

[mjordans2000]

Yeah, it's a Nextel issue. Mine would cause any radio or phone nearby to'click'. I gave up trying to use it on the LT.

[LT05RT04]

It could also be a GSM network issue. My Motorola V400 does the same thing when next to any electronic device. If I sit it next to a clock radio for example, I hear the clicking noise in very measured, repeated cycles. On my LT, I mounted the phone via a RAM mount on my right handlebar control pod to eliminate any problems with the bike's onboard electronics, and it works like a champ.

[early1]

It could also be a GSM network issue. My Motorola V400 does the same thing when next to any electronic device. If I sit it next to a clock radio for example, I hear the clicking noise in very measured, repeated cycles. On my LT, I mounted the phone via a RAM mount on my right handlebar control pod to eliminate any problems with the bike's onboard electronics, and it works like a champ.
Get the same thing with my GSM Cingular, however , only when the phone is too close to the RP-1.(tank bag) If I move it to a reasonable distance (my jacket pocket for example ,it quits the noise.

[EdBruce]

I have always had the "clicking noise" problem with any phone that is on a GSM or TDMA Network (Cingular, T-Mobile, Nextel, Rogers, Fido)

I have never had a problem with a phone using the CDMA network (Sprint, Alltel. USCellular, Bell, Telus)

Cheers

[km5bh]

As others have mentioned, it's the cell phone at fault, sort of. Additional shielding would cure it, but would increase size and cost of the affected device. I know when I am about to get a call on my Blackberry. As the tower calls for a cell phone to wake up and cell phone answers, I will several click through the radio and if near a monitor I'll see the interference. It's really not as much the phone as the offended device.
A cell phone is intended to emit RF. It's the other things around it that seem to be listening where they shouldn't.

Hope that makes sense.

Lewis (KM5BH)

[EdBruce]

Lewis...

I'm no electronics expert by any means, but here is what I did.

I took 4 different cell phones using CDMA technology. Our 2 CDMA carrieriers here are Bell and Telus. 2 phones where on Bell and 2 where on Telus. I hooked them up to my BC3 system and placed them in the bag on the oddments cover.
When a out-going call was made there was NO clicking noise
When a in-coming call came in, there was NO clicking noise.

Took 4 other phones using the TDMA-GSM technology. Used the 2 TDMA-GSM carrriers (Rogers, Fido). Used the exact same outline as above.
When a out-going call was made there WAS a clicking noise
When a in-coming call came in, there WAS a clicking noise.

All phones were placed in the exactly the same spot using the exact same connection
Cheers

[motorman587]

Nope this isn't the same clicking you guys are talking about. I get the little soft click, click, click, before the phone rings. This is when the phone picks up it is a loud click, click, click where you can not hold a converstion. I still like it because I will kown when someone calls.

[EdBruce]

Thats exactly what I get with a GSM or TDMA phone