Beacon Picking Up Weird Signal

[PeachesNCream]

I fired up my Tracker 2 this last weekend while I was in my garage and it was picking up a signal in search mode (with no other beacons on in the area). It kept reading a distance of 10, I moved into a different part of the house and it still was reading a distance of 10. I haven't tested it away from the house yet. Anyone else experienced this before?


In before hate on Tracker 2

[PNWbrit]

Don't take your garage into avalanche terrain.

[Bunion 2020]

Any fluorescent lighting in said garage?

Cell phone in your pocket?

[PNWbrit]

Cordless tool batteries on chargers.

Electrostatic air filter in furnace.

Breaker panel.

Etc... etc.

[adrenalated]

Yep.... tons of things can cause electrical interference and give you phantom signals. Have a high voltage power line running near your house?

[PeachesNCream]

Looks like a lot of things can cause a false signal. Phew. I thought my beacon was toast after just a year. I'll retest it out and away from the all the house stuff

[N1CK.]

my Tracker 3 alerts on my television.

not saying there isn't any problem with yours, but it's prob just interference.

[nickinbc]

Certainly wouldn't want to have to do a search with a digital beacon under the power lines at La Rosiere/La Thuile - one of the main transmission circuits from France to Italy and LOTS of interference back in the analogue beacon days when you could hear it instead of having to rely on the signal processing to reject it.

[benk]

EMI - same reason people advise keeping phones/electronics away from your beacon while traveling in the backcountryTM

[brutah]

Make sure you only use alkaline batteries in BCA trackers. I put lithimums in mine and it pushed the frequency signal a few degrees off of 457 mHz, it was still within the acceptable range but I felt like I could notice while doing searches.

[PNWbrit]

Make sure you only use alkaline batteries in BCA trackers. I put lithimums in mine and it pushed the frequency signal a few degrees off of 457 mHz, it was still within the acceptable range but I felt like I could notice while doing searches.

Only ever use alkaline batteries in a beacon.

It's what they're designed to give battery life % for.

[adrenalated]

Only ever use alkaline batteries in a beacon.

It's what they're designed to give battery life % for.

There are a couple beacons now that can accept lithium batteries. You generally need to change a setting in the beacon.

Mine can take lithiums. I see no reason to change from just using high quality alkalines though.

[PNWbrit]

I see no reason to change from just using high quality alkalines though.

Yep I know that some can take lithium with setting change.

But this.

[kootenayskier]

There are a couple beacons now that can accept lithium batteries. You generally need to change a setting in the beacon.

Mine can take lithiums. I see no reason to change from just using high quality alkalines though.

The Mammut Barryvox Pulse recognizes and adjusts for Lithium batteries, which last much longer (both in use and especially in storage), don’t leak (which happened to me using alkalines and required sending it away for servicing), are much less impacted by cold temperatures, and are lighter. They’re a cheap upgrade if your transceiver accepts them.

[Core Shot]

my Tracker 3 alerts on my television.

not saying there isn't any problem with yours, but it's prob just interference.

Poltergeist