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On one of my corded phones, I can hear faint music in the background
which i believe is a radio signal being transmitted on the line.
How do I cure that?

 

[GregS]

On one of my corded phones, I can hear faint music in the background
which i believe is a radio signal being transmitted on the line.
How do I cure that?

In the old days, a capacitor across the headphone did the trick. Wonder
if a DSL filter would work. You could also try a ferrite core
around the cord, wrapped a couple of turns.

greg\

 

[Jumpster Jiver]

On one of my corded phones, I can hear faint music in the background
which i believe is a radio signal being transmitted on the line.
How do I cure that?

First, plug another phone into the line to see if it's coming from the
phone or the line.
If it's the phone, perhaps there's a bad ground on a shield or something
but that doesn't sound likely.
More likely there are corroded, wet or otherwise damaged phone wires in
your house.
If you plug directly into the network interface and the problem's gone
then I would think it's somewhere in the wires within the home. If you
were to plug a different phone directly into the phone company's network
interface then the problem is somewhere in their lines and they should
repair it.
Basically eliminate possible sources one at a time until you find where
the radio noise is coming from. The last item left, however unlikely is
probably the culprit!

 

[jakdedert]

First, plug another phone into the line to see if it's coming from the
phone or the line.
If it's the phone, perhaps there's a bad ground on a shield or something
but that doesn't sound likely.
More likely there are corroded, wet or otherwise damaged phone wires in
your house.
If you plug directly into the network interface and the problem's gone
then I would think it's somewhere in the wires within the home. If you
were to plug a different phone directly into the phone company's network
interface then the problem is somewhere in their lines and they should
repair it.
Basically eliminate possible sources one at a time until you find where
the radio noise is coming from. The last item left, however unlikely is
probably the culprit!

One thing I've been guilty of--and which came back to bite me squarely
in the ass--was mounting phone jacks with the RG jack hole facing UP.

Bad idea.

It makes it much easier to plug in the phone, but the jack collects
'stuff' which, when wet, or even moist, corrodes the contacts and
eventually shorts out the line. Before that happens, however, the
corrosion could conceivably act as a diode and detect strong radio
signals.....

jak