Radio, Phone, Electronics Gone WIld !!!!!!!!!!

[tallyho8]

Last month I took a friend for a ride in my 2009 Sonata. I turned on the radio and set it on a channel I liked and set the volume. After a while I wanted to change the channel but it wouldn't change. I tried to lower the volume, turn it off, switch to am, fm or xm and no control did anything at all. It just remained on the same channel at the same volume.

When we got home my friend got out of the car and could hear his phone, took his phone out of his pocket and it was playing the same tune that I had on the radio. He turned his phone off and my radio started working properly again.

When he turned his phone back on the radio continued to work properly and even though we tried to re-create the scenario we couldn't duplicate it.

Could anyone tell me what happened? It was like something out of Twilight Zone. :confused2:

Since then, I traded in my Sonata on a 2013 Genesis Coupe that is equipped with Bluetooth but even after we sync a phone to it we can not get it to immobilize the radio.

 

[mbrule]

His phone synced up and took control of your radio via BlueTooth.......

 

[RobertN]

I had something happen a few years ago. I was working in a Failure Analysis lab, and had to do some stuff on a Scanning Electron Microscope. Our group had radios. I was sitting next to the machine, when I accidentally keyed the mic. Oh My! Relays for interlocks were clicking and clacking, it started to vent vacuum to atmosphere; all BAD stuff for a $750,000 SEM. Needless to say, no radios were allowed near the FIBs and SEMs after that...

 

[dmccarty]

It was an attempt by the black copters or UFO's trying to take over the car! Some how they failed. Where you wearing Brin's Patented Tin Foil hat or body suit? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Or it was the phone bluetooth as mbrule said.

I like my explanation better.

My truck radio is strange in that the volume knob has to pushed in ever so slightly to change the volume. If you don't do it just right, the volume gets turned down or will make you deaf. During the summer, the power windows will not always work until some time has passed and I am driving down the road. I have new batteries so that is not the problem. Very strange. I tried Brin's Patented Tin Foil hat, to be honest, I made my own version, but that did not help. Believe it or not. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[tallyho8]

But my 2009 Sonata did not have Bluetooth. It was just a regular radio, AM, FM, XM. There was no way I knew of to sync a phone to it. I do have Bluetooth in my new Genesis but even if I am playing songs that are on my phone over the radio, I am still able to use the volume controls on the radio and the switch to turn it off and on. Do any of you have Bluetooth that stops all your radio controls from working while it is on?

And besides, the radio was playing the station that I had it set to in the car and not any of the songs that he had on his phone.

I've already tried the tin foil hat, maybe I'll try some tin foil underwear too. :confused3:

 

[jimmyj]

I've already tried the tin foil hat, maybe I'll try some tin foil underwear too. :confused3:

I think you need to glue foil to the entire car. It'd be a good look to boot!

 

[dmccarty]

I've already tried the tin foil hat, maybe I'll try some tin foil underwear too. :confused3:

Tin foil underwear is not a good idea...

It chafes something awful! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

I use my Bluetooth headset to the phone all of the time but it does not mess with the radio.

I have read plenty of stories about problems caused by different communication equipment interfering with other devices. You might have just been "lucky" to have had the correct equipment/circumstances to hit the problem.

Later,
Dan

 

[Willl]

maybe I'll try some tin foil underwear too.

Definitely be the talk in the airport scanners lunchroom for a while.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I used to pick up the local radio stations on my old Rickenbacker electric guitar, and that's been 50 years ago!

 

[PILOON]

That is called RFI !, radio frequency interference.
The 2 freq 'beat' or mix and can result the sum of both or the difference between the 2 or other weird combination with oddball results.

I have seen transmitting on a given frequency cause helicopter RPM gauge indicate 1/2 speed and other weird examples.
That is the reason that airlines won't allow cell phones and other electronics while in flight, well that was then as now they shield things much better but still request no devices during take off and landing.