Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!newstop!sun-barr!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!telecom-gateway From: pf@islington-terrace.csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Forest Park Hum?? Fact or Fiction? Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 89 11:09:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 39 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 528, message 3 of 9 > Date: Thursday, November 16, 1989 7:43pm (CST) > From: isis!isis.UUCP!tkoppel at eecs.nwu.edu (Ted Koppel) > Subject: Forest Park Hum?? Fact or Fiction? > Is this for real? Is there any way around it? Is there any pressure > that my sister can place on anyone at Illinois Bell to improve > matters? And so on ... > [Moderator's Note: I have never heard of such a thing; that is, an entire > community with noisy lines. I have; I live in one (far Northeast Dallas). In my case, the problem is that I'm just over the hill from the KMEZ-FM transmitter, and the radio signal interferes with the modem. Codex and Microcom modems wouldn't operate in the area unless some simple filtering circuitry was added. My modem is issued by my employer, so they were not only familiar with the problem, but also had a modified modem handy; I'm told the Microcom, at least, now includes the filter in their modems. Good thing it could be solved by a modem swap: given the horror stories about SWBell charging business rates for modem use, I wasn't about to call them and ask for help. I don't know how to check for a similar condition in Forest Park. The technician I talked to here just had an inspiration when I told him that the problem started when I moved to a new apartment. Paul Fuqua pf@csc.ti.com {smu,texsun,cs.utexas.edu,rice}!ti-csl!pf Texas Instruments Computer Science Center PO Box 655474 MS 238, Dallas, Texas 75265 [Moderator's Note: Come to think of it, I have too. Please see the article in the Digest from earlier this year on the situation in Hammond, IN, where radio station WYCA-FM blasts everyone within a few miles range of their transmitter in Burnham, IL. PT]