Thursday, June 15, 2006
800-221-1212 and Clicking Speakers
The speakers currently in use on my computer, which in Stoughton were hooked to Deb’s, have always had a problem with static clicks. They pick up some kind of signal from somewhere and click. Sometimes a lot. It’s highly annoying.
We’d not noticed it much since putting them on my machine recently, but in the past couple days it got bad.
In the past couple days, my prepaid Verizon cell phone, a Kyocera going on four years old, started getting repeated calls from 800-221-1212, a number alien to me. It appears to be associated with one or more airline reservation systems. They hang up after a couple rings or if I pick up.
The speakers pre-announce the incoming call.
That’s right. In the second or so before the cell phone rings, the speakers crackle! Then they continue to crackle through a moment after the call stops.
Apparently the cell phone is putting out RF enough to interfere as it… communicates out? Back to the cell tower? In the process of handling the call transaction. Weird.