Re: Interference issue

["Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>]

It may be five miles, but if they live in Southie, the path is salt water or
salt marshes all the way, so the signal strength is quite high. Not
volts/m, which they may get from BZ, but probably around 100 mV/m.
That's a strong signal. Most likely the problem is in the telephone wiring.
Could be outside the house or within. I think outside is the better
possibility. All it takes is a corroded connection somewhere to act as
a rectifier, AKA detector. You can bet that Verizon will blame the
phone because that gets them off the hook (so to speak)--until you
make such a nuisance of yourself that maybe they look into it. I would
probably try the state PUC if you can't get anywhere with Verizon.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367

-----Original Message-----
From: Sptseditor@aol.com <Sptseditor@aol.com>
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:14 PM
Subject: Interference issue


This one was rather odd, so I thought I'd ask the advice of our engineering
gurus...

My parents live in South Boston, about a mile from the water. Recently, they
have begun receiving Radio Disney in their telephone. I thought this odd,
since they are probably 4-5 miles from 1260's antenna site in the Neponset
marshes.

They called the telephone company and the phone company said it was a
problem with the telephone. Supposedly they changed to another non-cordless
phone and the same problem happened. The phone company has had problems with
the lines at this location in the past, so who knows if they are really to
be trusted or notn with their "expert" assessment. I don't think they've
talked to the neighbors to see if any of them are having any problems as
well.

Could this be:
1.) Caused by the telephone (but there's been two of them, so who knows);
2.) Caused by a neighbor listening to RD (though I don't know what affect
that would have);
3.) Maybe a broadcast line carrying Disney's programming from its base to
Boston somehow being crossed (though I would imagine they use dishes);
4.) Somehow signal overload from a 5kw station in the middle of the band
making it that far from the transmitter.

Any thoughts?

-Sean