Can you hear me now?

[coit]

http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college/techs-video-board-to-be-replaced-due-to-peculiar-f/nrhzw/

Tech learned in February that the video board, assembled in 2009 above the south end zone, was emitting a frequency that was causing problems for cell-phone users. The scoreboard, which was manufactured to the specifications of the time, was evidently not effectively shielding the electromagnetic signals that it was creating.

 

[LegendaryGT]

It took 7 years to figure this out? Not one curious tech student had a spectrum analyzer of any kind on campus???

Where is the school I went to?

 

[spandex]

It took 7 years to figure this out? Not one curious tech student had a spectrum analyzer of any kind on campus???

Where is the school I went to?

The signals may be detectable only during full power operations.

BTW, can a SpecAn be hidden in one's pants?

 

[MEwreck02]

The signals may be detectable only during full power operations.

BTW, can a SpecAn be hidden in one's pants?

Not in spandex

 

[Diseqc]

BTW, can a SpecAn be hidden in one's pants?

The wand can

 

[Architorture23]

BTW, can a SpecAn be hidden in one's pants?

As long as it's not hidden in a chick fil a sandwich.

 

[goldeagle]

Sounds like an industrial-sized ferrite bead is needed.

 

[BuckNasty]

It looks like E-Mag got those clowns!

 

[Flywheel]

I used to have a complete cell blackout in the stadium that made me scratch my head. Now I know.

 

[covingtonjacket]

So we bought a cheap knock-off video board? Hope we got a discount....

 

[coit]

I didn't ask when I initially posted this, but how realistic is it really for the video board to interfere with cell signals for folks that aren't within the immediate vicinity of the board?

 

[Deke]

I didn't ask when I initially posted this, but how realistic is it really for the video board to interfere with cell signals for folks that aren't within the immediate vicinity of the board?

Curious as well. I've always had shit luck doing most anything on my phone in the upper north (granted it's gotten slightly better over the years). I just always figured it had to do with the density of users. Maybe not though?

 

[ramblinwise1]

We can't afford a new one. Wrap it up in chicken wire.

 

[southendzoneBEE]

Is it just me or was last year a little better as far as service goes?

 

[deadeye30215]

A little aluminum foil could solve the issue...

 

[samsgt02]

Tech installed a DAS system in Bobby Dodd but I believe it was only AT&T. What you need is each carrier install their antennas in Bobby Dodd, too. If enough Verizon, Sprint, etc. customers complain they'll install them. But yeah if the big screen is messing with cell signals, my guess is no amount of small cell antennas is going to help.