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#207440 25-Dec-2016 07:21
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I've started getting interference on FM radio. Not sure exactly when it started as I've been overseas for the last few weeks.
It happens every half hour or so (but not exactly).
It's some rhythmic buzzing, followed by a series of clicks. Always exactly the same. It lasts about 5-7 secs.
The only time I've heard anything like it came through the car radio when driving near the main Heathrow Airport radar years ago.

There's no big radars near me apart from Devonport navy base a couple of streets away, but would the ships be using high powered stuff when they are tied up alongside?

Is anyone else in Auckland experiencing the same thing?

Has anyone got any thoughts on what it could be?




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  #1694803 25-Dec-2016 07:26
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The description sounds like cell phone interference.

hummmmmmmmm, dit da dit, dit da dit, dit da dit.

Where do you put your phone?



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  #1694804 25-Dec-2016 07:27
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It's the Wilberforce




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  #1694806 25-Dec-2016 07:31
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GSM (2G) does this.




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  #1694808 25-Dec-2016 07:43
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Radars are normally swept so I would expect something every few seconds.

More likely a gcsb bug.
Where were you overseas?




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  #1694817 25-Dec-2016 08:09
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Wrap your house in tinfoil sealed

 

Seriously, it sounds like GSM. Look for a phone which has dropped back to 2G nearby, or a GSM alarm "dialling" home etc.


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  #1694818 25-Dec-2016 08:12
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elpenguino: Radars are normally swept so I would expect something every few seconds.

More likely a gcsb bug.
Where were you overseas?


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  #1694819 25-Dec-2016 08:13
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Oh that 2g sound use to drive me nuts.

 

 


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  #1694825 25-Dec-2016 08:56
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Aliens!

Or 2G.
Got the 2G sound bad recently on a drive across country Victoria on back roads. Forgot how annoying it was

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  #1694827 25-Dec-2016 08:58
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Every 30 minutes, could it be a smart power meter transmitting reading on 2G?

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  #1694828 25-Dec-2016 09:01
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My smart meter transmits once a day, around midnight, according to the installer. Sounds like a cellphone to me as well.


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  #1694857 25-Dec-2016 10:31
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It aint the navy, we are all off on xmas break.

 

all the navigation radars are safe to use in harbour (X or S band) so 2-12 GHz so way way way above what your radar recieves.

 

The bigger air search stuff we are restricted from using that in harbour and even close to land.

 

The only thing that could come close to causing you interference would be the radios but they are all difference frequencies to your AM/FM radios, and even then we test for any sort of mutual interference.

 

TL;;DR its not military radar or radios causing your issues


 
 
 

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  #1694862 25-Dec-2016 11:19
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Jase2985: The bigger air search stuff we are restricted from using that in harbour and even close to land.


In the 80s ?? something military tied up at the Overseas Terminal briefly switched something on and managed to drop phone calls across Wgtn.

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  #1694863 25-Dec-2016 11:22
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GCSB are after you

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  #1694882 25-Dec-2016 13:23
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Definately 2G phone mine does it unless I put it on 3g or 4G 


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  #1694883 25-Dec-2016 13:35
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Incoming transmission from the planet Zarg .....!






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