Re: Interference issue

[Tony Abruzzese <abruzzese@biochem.bumc.bu.edu>]

Sptseditor@aol.com wrote:

> 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

I live in Billerica about 7 road mi. from the WRKO towers in Burlington., and might actually be closer. For a while after we moved in three years ago, I could hear RKO on all of my phones, but only when a phone was plugged in to a specific jack in the basement. I replaced the wire from the phone junction box to the jack and fixed the problem.

The problem had to do specifically with that 10 foot piece of wire and nothing else. It took a while to track down and was most annoying -- really messed with our dial-up connection to the internet.

Tony

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