Help! How is neighbor listening to phone converstion! | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1535529 United States 09/28/2011 11:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1552844 United States 09/28/2011 11:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Changed to different company, and the same. The phone company reported 86 hang ups in a 20 hour period. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402 My mother is older and not on the phone that much. She has land lines and digital cordless phones. Thier phone is picking up the conversations most likely. I was cleaning my phone one day and hit the speaker button on my phone(a cordless)and was surprize to hear my neighbor having a conversation with her daughter. I offened wondered if they could pick up my conversations as well. The old scanners can be programed to monitor a certain frec range for phone calls tooo. Oh, they never heard me speak when I asked "what the hell" |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1515402 United States 09/28/2011 11:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529 She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end! We can't figure out the landline situation though! Thanks again! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1535529 United States 09/28/2011 11:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529 She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end! We can't figure out the landline situation though! Thanks again! Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1515402 United States 09/28/2011 11:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529 She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end! We can't figure out the landline situation though! Thanks again! Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building? No, she is in a house. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1535529 United States 09/28/2011 11:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529 She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end! We can't figure out the landline situation though! Thanks again! Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building? No, she is in a house. Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1515402 United States 09/28/2011 11:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402 She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end! We can't figure out the landline situation though! Thanks again! Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building? No, she is in a house. Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make? No, she has never had that happened. She has had a situation where her phone rang and she answered and the drs. office was asking her why she called them. SHe did not call the drs. and the drs. did not call my mother. Hope that made sense! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1535529 United States 09/28/2011 11:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make? No, she has never had that happened. She has had a situation where her phone rang and she answered and the drs. office was asking her why she called them. SHe did not call the drs. and the drs. did not call my mother. Hope that made sense! I'm betting that there is a "cross" between ONE side of your mom's line with ONE side of your neighbors line. It takes a pair of copper wires for each households phone to work. When one of these 2 wires is crossed, i.e. shorted to one of your neighbors wires, it can, and will enable your neighbor to listen in on your mom's calls. Sounds complicated, but tell the phone company what you suspect, and ask them to test for foreign voltage or grounds(from your neighbors line) on your mom's line. This will solve your problem, but you have to get a repairman who is willing to test the lines thoroughly to find the "cross". Good luck with that. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1515402 United States 09/28/2011 11:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make? No, she has never had that happened. She has had a situation where her phone rang and she answered and the drs. office was asking her why she called them. SHe did not call the drs. and the drs. did not call my mother. Hope that made sense! I'm betting that there is a "cross" between ONE side of your mom's line with ONE side of your neighbors line. It takes a pair of copper wires for each households phone to work. When one of these 2 wires is crossed, i.e. shorted to one of your neighbors wires, it can, and will enable your neighbor to listen in on your mom's calls. Sounds complicated, but tell the phone company what you suspect, and ask them to test for foreign voltage or grounds(from your neighbors line) on your mom's line. This will solve your problem, but you have to get a repairman who is willing to test the lines thoroughly to find the "cross". Good luck with that. I know she has has several reapairmen take a look at the box outside and say they have fixed the problem. I will tell her your exact words! Thank you! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1535529 United States 09/28/2011 11:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529 Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make? No, she has never had that happened. She has had a situation where her phone rang and she answered and the drs. office was asking her why she called them. SHe did not call the drs. and the drs. did not call my mother. Hope that made sense! I'm betting that there is a "cross" between ONE side of your mom's line with ONE side of your neighbors line. It takes a pair of copper wires for each households phone to work. When one of these 2 wires is crossed, i.e. shorted to one of your neighbors wires, it can, and will enable your neighbor to listen in on your mom's calls. Sounds complicated, but tell the phone company what you suspect, and ask them to test for foreign voltage or grounds(from your neighbors line) on your mom's line. This will solve your problem, but you have to get a repairman who is willing to test the lines thoroughly to find the "cross". Good luck with that. I know she has has several reapairmen take a look at the box outside and say they have fixed the problem. I will tell her your exact words! Thank you! The problem will NOT be at your Mom, or your neighbor's home. It will be in the main cable(either aerial or underground) that feeds the whole neighborhood. |
Morpheus User ID: 729560 Canada 09/28/2011 11:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's easy. Scanner will allow someone to listen. Even easier to get an old phone with some aligator clips substituted for the phone jack. All you need to do is go to the junction box and clip on to the various pairs of wires till you find the pair you want (by recognizing voices). Even easier to do today if someone clips on, gets a dial tone, and then calls there own phone to see what the caller ID shows. When I was 10 years old (back in the 60's) we use to clip on the phone lines at the neighbourhood junction box and cut in on the neighbours calls. Lots of fun in the 1960's but I wouldn't recommend doing that now since it would probably get you some jail time. |
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