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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 17:16:38 EDT
- From: kab@hotstone.att.com (Kenneth A Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Hearing Radio on the Phone
- Message-ID: <telecom12.666.5@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: AT&T
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 666, Message 5 of 13
- Lines: 29
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- In article <telecom12.662.7@eecs.nwu.edu>, rbook@owlnet.rice.edu
- (Robert Aaron Book) writes:
-
- > Recently I was talking on the phone to a friend of mine in Long Beach,
- > California, and she told me a a repetitve problem she had been having
- > on her phone -- whenever she used the phone, she heard a *radio*
- > *station* on her phone line. I listened carefully, found that, on the
- > other end of the line, I heard the same thing (only when I was talking
- > to her), only not as loud. We identified the radio station as KFI
- > (640 AM, Los Angeles).
-
- > [Moderator's Note: There are line filters available which will cure
- > this problem. The telco has no special responsibility to handle the
-
- As it happens, I have one of these line filters in my desk, a Z100A
- radio interference filter sold in AT&T phone stores. Quote:
-
- PURPOSE: The Radio Interference Filter is designed to eliminate
- extraneous noises from local AM band radio stations that you might
- hear through the receive of your phone. It will also minimize
- interference from other sources such as FM band radio stations,
- citizen band, and ham radios.
-
- Hope you all find this useful.
-
-
- Ken Becker kab@hotstone.att.com
-
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