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Yes, we were advised this would be a problem, and have a cell phone bucket
outside the door where people have to leave their phones...
cheers,
Rosemary

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CSIRO Plant Industry
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On 10/07/13 7:13 AM, "Smith, Benjamin E." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>Hi all,
>    Our Leica SP8 has a pair of HyD detectors, and I've noticed recently
>that we will get a series of saturated lines during a scan at random,
>intermittent moments.  Judging by their appearance, my guess has been
>that the detectors were picking up cellular data transmissions.  Every
>time I saw them, someone had a cell phone on them, and having them move
>the cell phone to the far side of the room, or turning the cell phone
>off, stopped the lines from occurring.
>
>    I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this with hybrid
>detectors, and whether this is normal behavior or something we need to
>have looked into.
>
>Thanks,
>    Ben Smith
>
>Benjamin E. Smith, Ph.D.
>Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory
>Research Scientist II
>University of Oklahoma
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