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Why does my monitor and alarm clock freak out when I get a call on my cell phone?
Whenever I send or receive a text, or get a phone call on my cell phone, the computer monitor gets kinda wavy and my radio alarm clock makes weird ticking noises... why? Is this bad?
4 Answers
- Chicken LittleLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
When all is said and done, a phone is just a bunch of radios - usually at least four or five of them (three bands or more, bluetooth, and sometimes others, as well as wi-fi frequencies). Radios operate using radio frequencies, just like your clock radio; your monitor is also sensitive to them, and that's completely normal. When the phone goes active, it starts sending radio signals as well as receiving them (for instance, to let the person calling know that the phone is ringing, it sends signals to the tower it's "talking" to), and your other items are responding to those frequencies. That's because they each have an antenna of some kind - your clock radio has one built in; your monitor's cable that attaches it to your computer functions as an antenna as well, even though it wasn't really intended to do so.
The first answerer has no idea what she's talking about. The radio frequencies are at such low power, they won't hurt a thing. They CERTAINLY won't harm you or devices intended to deal with them in the first place.
If it really bugs you, get a filter to put on your computer screen's input cord; what you want is called a "band pass" filter, that will filter out all frequencies EXCEPT the ones that your screen works on. It's only annoying, however; it won't actually harm your screen. You can also switch to a flat-panel screen and avoid the problem completely, since they work differently from the big old CRT-type monitors.
Source(s): I work for T-Mobile, I hold a degree in computer engineering, and I'm a licensed amateur radio operator, and I DO know what I'm talking about. - ?Lv 44 years ago
i exploit my cellular telephone because I doze off to VERY quiet classical music on my clock/radio/alarm clock or perhaps as the alarm is going off in the morning, that's on a similar quantity as what I drifted off to.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it is to do with the frequency that cellphone recieves and Transmits.
I get it with super old computer screens the bbulky ones)) and radio theres not much you can do.
NO ITS NOT BAD --- =D
- workengalLv 41 decade ago
you should never have your cell phone around your comp. to much radio freq. interferes with your comp.