Static-Free Cell Phone Calls
I have a Cingular cell phone. I got it in February, 2005, when I moved to Mississippi.
I noticed from the beginning that there was a lot of static when I call out.
Mainly, I call my wife, who is still packing up our stuff in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas. I thought the connection in the hills might be the cause. When I called her on her trip to California, it was the same. She was visiting her brother, who lives in the hills.
Then I called her in Hawaii. Same problem. Static. Was it her phone?
Then I got an idea. I put my left index finger on top of the stubby antenna. Could my finger serve as an antenna? The static stopped. Ah, ha!
Then I let loose of the antenna. The static did not return. What was going on here?
I finally figured it out. To put my left index finger on the antenna, I had to hold the cell phone with my right hand. I normally had held it against my left ear with my left hand.
I transferred the phone to my left hand. The static returned.
I began to experiment. I held the phone with my thumb on the left-hand side of the phone and my right index finger on the right-hand side. Static. I kept moving my finger to slightly different spots along the right-hand side of the phone. All of a sudden, the static stopped.
Is the phone using my finger as a signal booster? I don't know. But I do know this: I can get rid of the static when my right index finger is placed along the right-hand side of the phone. I have to search for the spot every time, but I always find it.
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