There is a voltage problem. The clock on my wife's car the clock gets weird when the alternator is about to die. It could be the internal regulator is finally crapping out, or just the voltage variations. Either way, its voltage related. The radio doing wild and wacky things when the cell charger is engaged sounds like there is also a ground problem for dashboard items...   ...didn't we just recently get this problem, and its fix from somebody else? This sounds SOOOO familiar....;-)

   Oh, and as a trivia item - its "Plan Nine" not "Planet Nine"...

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On Dec 23, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> I've had two things weird happen in my van lately, was wondering if
> either has happened to anyone else.
>
> First - while driving, I'm listening to the radio, and I plug my
> cellphone charger into the cigarette lighter to charge the phone. All
> of the sudden I'm getting truly weird spacey noises on the radio -
> like creepy sounds from a really old sci-fi movie (think "Planet 9
> from Outer Space") or maybe someone playing a theramin (sp?). Unplug
> the cellphone charger and they're gone.
>
> Second - While not driving, I plugged in my clock-radio in the evening
> to my (cheap) inverter and thence into my extra battery. Set the
> clock, but in the morning it's half an hour fast. The first time it
> happened, I figured I'd set it wrong, but the second time I realized
> it wasn't me.
>
> Anyone seen either of these phenomena before?
>
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Evan Mac Donald

1984 Wolfburg
1985 GL 7 Pass.
1991 Carat Weekender
1972 Chevy P/U
1993 Bonneville