| cardingtr |
Me:"Hello?"
You: "Hey, how you doing, best time you call, but I didn't know you are now listening to Salsa station! I can hear it from the background."
Me: " No it's my phone, it's got this problem.....blah,blah."
So I got this interfence everytime I pick up my phone. All phone, all outlet!
:mad:
I ditched my GE corded/cordless 900mhz and bought a Uniden Powermax TRU8865-2 5.8GHz and thank heavens I finally heard it clear.
Then today, Salsa is back:( . I was talking seriously with my wife and got this on my background.
Is there any "Interference Blockers" out there. I might check out Radio Shack soon. |
|
|
| mdxx3 |
Before you run down to Radio Shack... one more troubleshooting step is to go outside to the main phone panel. This is typically on the wall outside the garage where the phone company's lines meet your house. Unplug the RJ-type modular connector there (this breaks all the connections to the phones in your house). Plug-in a regular/wired phone to test - this is a direct line going to the phone company's junction box down the street and all the way out to their nearby station, etc.
If you hear music on this regular phone, then call your phone company/provider for repair/service. They'll have to figure it out since the outside lines belong to them (no fee to fix) and they have to track down the radio station or a neighbor that's using a phone line/adapter for music (crosstalk or illegal line feed). If you don't hear it, then it's the inside-house wiring, but phones wires inside are all CAT3/5/5E twisted-pair types - normally they will not have any audio interference (twisted pair will cancel the noise itself out) unless something is directly feeding into the line like from a neighbor or something further down the street). |
|
|
| cardingtr |
My phone line is already disconnected to the phone company. I have Packet 8 (VoIP) now. I used to have Southwestern Bell but as far as I can remember, I got this problem even I at that time.
So the interference is there while the line is connected to outside network and now still present with my phone line connected to the wall jack around the house to Packet8 phone adapter.
You think this
will work? It doesnt say specifically for FM station interference but I can always return it. |
|
|
| mdxx3 |
Wow... an inside phone line may be becoming an antenna even though twisted-pair or balanced-lines aren't supposed to do this, or something is picking it up from somewhere and feeding it back into the line in the audio range (300-3.5k Hz). Not sure if that device will work because it says 3-30MHz and CB band while the FM band is different but you may want to try this filter anyways.
Worst case may have to disconnect one phone line after another ("inside" the wall at central point where they all meet but must be the star type before disconnecting, and not the "loop" type). Do you have any other items such as a fax machine, modem, plus any set-top boxes around the TV/entertainment center that plugs into a phone line that may be causing it? |
|
|
| cardingtr |
Fax Machine, I got one.
I will disconnect that and see... |
|
|
|
