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- From: Bruce Bostwick <lihan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,sci.electronics.misc,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 60Hz buzz on phone line & modem problems
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 21:26:57 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- dougrud@blarg.net (Doug Rudoff) wrote:
- > My step-mom's house's phone line has a very loud 60 Hz buzz. Any
- > suggestions on how to get rid of it?
-
- First thing to check for is a ground fault somewhere in the phone
- wiring. Phone wires are not supposed to be grounded anywhere -- ring
- and tip should both be floating relative to the house. (For a fun
- diversion, try connecting a test set across tip and ground, or across
- ring and ground for that matter -- lots of hum there..)
-
- Other possibilities are various sorts of resistive or inductive
- coupling to the house wiring, but ground faults are the first thing
- to look for. Check at the demarc box -- if you get hum there, it's
- the phone company's problem, and if not, start tracing station wires.
-
- > In lieu of fixing the buzz for the phone line are there any filters
- > that will help the modem?
-
- Not that are practical -- you'd have to separate the transmitted
- signal from the received signal with a hybrid, and then use an
- active twin-T in each direction. Better by far to fix the basic
- problem.
-
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