cell phones interference?

[Big Boys Hobbies]

I have notice over the past few hunts that if i leave the modern convenience in the truck I get allot less false "chatter/false feedback" from my SE. The chatter is never what I would call bad but it is allot smoother running in all the places I hunt that I have hunted before.

Anyone else notice this?

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Never experienced any major interference but of course never hunted a salt water beach. As I now hunt alone and not a kid anymore I do carry a cell phone for emergencies...Noise cancel works great for me and not one to run sensitivty extremely high which can cause interference...

 

[erikk]

Hunted a salt beach today with the cell and the EX 2 ran just like always.I wad using a WOT coil but I don't see how that would make a difference. I went near a 5-6 foot stick antenna on a building the other day with the Minelab 8 inch coil and the machine went nuts. Went back to the truck and switch coils and by then everything was OK. I haven't a clue what the problem was but it never returned

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

So when you were near the antenna did you run the noise cancel to see if the machine would settle down before going to the other coil? I only ask because you didn't mention that. I know it almost doesn't NEED mentioning, but beileve it or not, some people NEVER run the noise cancel and since that's what it's MADE for...did you run it?

 

[erikk]

Yes, I ran the NC and I also ran the sens down to 8 before I headed back to the truck.Just could not get it to stop chirping. First time it has ever happened

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Maybe whatever was causing it had abated by the time you came back? Like a transmitter maybe?

I've been near some sources and power lines where there was no quieting it down. It does happen.

 

[diggingfix]

n/t

 

[erikk]

I think it was a combination of things. 1. someone could have been transmitting at the time and 2. yesterday I took off the coil cover and found I had enough sand and dirt to plant a small garden. I clean it after every trip but I had been hunting that morning from wet grass to sand/black sandy dirt and it probably filled it up in short order. This is the only coil that I don't have the cover sealed with caulk. I do now! The fine sugar sand down here gets into everything and because I am a "scrubber" it gets in even quicker

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Yup, that'll do it!