trm54321 wrote:
We're picking up a radio station on our wired telephone in the main
bedroom.
I assumed the phone was bad, so it was replaced with a new one,
different brand.
I also added a RS ground jack by the phone, but that didn't help
either.
The other 3 phones in the house don't have this problem.
Any ideas?
Cheers!
call the phone company and complain. they have some stuff they can put
on the line to alleviate this problem.

On Wed, 30 May 2007 12:47:25 -0400, sp1ke wrote:

trm54321 wrote:
We're picking up a radio station on our wired telephone in the main
bedroom.
I assumed the phone was bad, so it was replaced with a new one,
different brand.
I also added a RS ground jack by the phone, but that didn't help
either.
The other 3 phones in the house don't have this problem.
Any ideas?
Cheers!
call the phone company and complain. they have some stuff they can put
on the line to alleviate this problem.

Yes, and the device is free, but Verizon charges for a service call to
put one on. 75 dollars or so for the first half hour. Plus you have
to be home when he comes. The verizon guy told me to buy a DSL filter,
I think it was, at radio shack. But I changed phones and it went
away. The "new" phone is 15 years old.

It's possible tht your new phone is actually the same maker as your
old phone, or the same weakness. Or maybe a DSL filter will solve
your problem. 15 dollars iirc.

On Wed, 30 May 2007 12:47:25 -0400, sp1ke wrote:

trm54321 wrote:
We're picking up a radio station on our wired telephone in the main
bedroom.
I assumed the phone was bad, so it was replaced with a new one,
different brand.
I also added a RS ground jack by the phone, but that didn't help
either.
The other 3 phones in the house don't have this problem.
Any ideas?
Cheers!
call the phone company and complain. they have some stuff they can put
on the line to alleviate this problem.

Best not do that until you've determined if the problem exists in
their lines. Try connecting a phone directly to the point where the
line enters your house.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"God was invented by man for a reason, that
reason is no longer applicable."

Mark Lloyd wrote:

On Wed, 30 May 2007 12:47:25 -0400, sp1ke wrote:


trm54321 wrote:

We're picking up a radio station on our wired telephone in the main
bedroom.
I assumed the phone was bad, so it was replaced with a new one,
different brand.
I also added a RS ground jack by the phone, but that didn't help
either.
The other 3 phones in the house don't have this problem.
Any ideas?
Cheers!

call the phone company and complain. they have some stuff they can put
on the line to alleviate this problem.


Best not do that until you've determined if the problem exists in
their lines. Try connecting a phone directly to the point where the
line enters your house.


Before we switched our phones to run off our Comcast cable we had a huge
amount of "common mode" 60 Hz voltage (on both sides of the incoming
phone line) which got really bad when it rained and the overhead lines
and power insulators got wet.

It didn't bother the couple of ancient "simple" phones in the house, but
the more modern ones which ran off wall warts had very annoying 60 HZ
hums. The olde phone company said they couldn't do anything about it
because they weren't going to put any more money into their copper
network since fiber optic lines were going to get installed in the next
couple of years.

So, we jumped ship to Comcast, leaving the hum behind.

Jeff
--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.