Got an answer abt phones being monitored by WIRELESS receivers(thanks Nickster et al.)

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This would be regarding the previous thread, wherein I was shocked at my personal call being BROADCAST over a wireless CD/radio receiver's speakers.

A couple of posters kindly provided links to resources, one of which was "radioman". Below is his take on the problem. I'll still need to go to vtech customer support on Monday. Thank you to Nickster for the link.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5956200

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WoW that is unhappy...............

The listener must be picking up a harmonic and normally these new phones transmit on hundreds of digital trunked frequencies making listening a near impossibility.

I would suggest you have a defective phone stuck on a single frequency and your listener is close by listening on a single frequency. Bad news, defective phone.

I would replace the system.

Don't try to do the job with a $29.95 unit, your privacy is too valuable.

We just tested some inexpensive units at 4.2 and 5.8 gig and they bleed and we can listen. Terrible.

I remember being in convoys some years back and what fun we had listening to Bill Clinton on his cell phone in the days when the cells were analog and running between 869 and 894 mhz. I told the president (he was my friend and Hillary is from my high school 2 years behind at Main Twp. in Park Ridge Ill.) He thought that was funny and gave us plenty of fun stuff to listen to after that....what a great guy.

I like phones that are digital and at 900 mhz. We have tested and do not hear anything on our "spread spectrum" receivers. If you have a digital phone and the receiver is analog you should not be able to be monitored. Try a "spread spectrum" device where both the hand set and base are "spread spectrum" and I venture to think your problems will disappear.

Please follow and let me know what happens when the switch is made...........I am most interested. We have had no problem with surreptitious monitoring with the units I mentioned. Uniden seems to be the most reliable.

Too bad the cell phones went digital.......we had such fun listening to the foibles and adventures of people we didn't know who were doing things they shouldn't do and saying things they never thought could be listened to.

We also had a fun time listening to the neighborhood at 49 mhz on any old scanner as the gal down the block was preparing to meet her boyfriend while hubby was at work. Made us all into a bunch of "dirty old men".

Can still go back in time though, going to shoot "America" tonight ("horse with no name" and others)...............gotta have a good time.

Keep me posted...........always interested in these anomalies.

Good luck,

Radioman

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[Nickster]

1. Awesome, glad the link was useful. n/t