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- From: GA.MCL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark C. Lawrence)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: Getting rid of radio on my phone lines?
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:35:44 -0800
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- In article <1992Nov23.204931.17999@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>,
- patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov23.150227.14070@miki.pictel.com> dustin@miki.pictel.com (Dustin Clampitt) writes:
- >
- >Who to call? Look in the Federal Government listings for the number of
- >the FCC and register a complaint. The radio station may be in violation,
- >but it's not likely. Chances are that the FCC will tell you the same
- >thing as the phone company, but it can't hurt to try.
-
- I'm sure they will. Please don't waste your time and the FCC's time
- complaining about RFI on a phone line. This is *never* the fault of the radio
- station.
-
- Usually this is caused by the phone wires acting as an antenna, and the signal
- is rectified in the phone and becomes audible. A filter in the line will
- usually clean it up. There is one other possibility, however: if the signal
- is being rectified by a bad connection in the phone line (as another poster
- reported), it will appear as audio at the interface block. In this case there
- is nothing the customer can do to fix it, the phone co. must fix the problem.
-
- Mark C. Lawrence
- Systems Programmer Internet: M.Lawrence@Forsythe.Stanford.edu
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