Be glad you don't have an air bag!
Below is an excerpt from something I found while researching the cause
of a "Brrraaaap" sound interrupting the county council meetings we
video tape. It turns out a couple of the council members had PDA's that
use the GSM technology, the new Sprint phones and Blackberry PDA's I
believe were the brands.
Text messaging and when the tower is looking for the phone are when the
RF is the strongest, hence the sound occurring before the phone rings.
[ Vive la Cellphone! When GSM phones were first introduced, they were
reported to produce a deafening sound for hearing aid wearers and to
interfere with electronic devices such as pacemakers. Swedish hospitals
banned them. An Australian newspaper claimed a motorist set off his
airbag with one, and most curious, in Paris, they were said to
occasionally reset taxi meters to zero.]
Peat
On Jan 28, 2006, at 7:22 PM, (-Phil-) wrote:
> Sometimes RF hash from cellphones can "lock up" the microcontroller
> inside
> the radio. Try disconnecting the car battery for a few minutes,
> (minimum)
> then reconnect it, I bet it will fix your problem.
>
> -Phil
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "todd_sanchez" <todd.sanchez@comcast.net>
> To: <peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 7:12 PM
> Subject: [Peugeot-L] Radio shutdown after cell phone call!!!
>
>
>> I was driving home tonight in my '88 505 wgn listening to FM radio
>> with my
>> cell phone
>> sitting in a cupholder next to the gear shift. The cell phone rang and
>> almost
>> simultaneously the radio went "Brrraaaap" and quit; colder than a
>> mackerel.
>>
>> I checked the fuses in the box under the hood on the driver's side.
>> All
>> appeared to be
>> good. I don't think the radio has an in-line fuse; will check
>> tomorrow.
>>
>> So, any ideas? Is the radio toast? A Japanese victim of a Finnish ECM
>> attack?
>>
>> (Radio's a Pioneer KE1900 with the nice Peugeot matching orange
>> lights,
>> and the cell
>> phone is an old Nokia brick; model 5165.)
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