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Subject: Re: SD-722 "static?" (was New file uploaded...)
From: Mike Feldman <>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 01:17:19 -0600
Tim Gray wrote:

> While the US is fairly behind the times on cellphones, I do believe
> most carriers have gone digital.  It's just that not all providers use
> GSM - Sprint and Verizon do not use GSM, but something else (CDMA?). 
> I don't know if those phones have a different signature of noise.

A CDMA phone uses a spread-spectrum transmission, and it sounds more
like white noise than GSM's pulsy noise on a narrow RF band.  Analog
cellular is FM modulated, so with the right diode in your signal path
you can hear voices.


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