Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: mihalo@chinet.uucp (William Mihalo) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Neighbor Bugs Family By Eavesdropping Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 15:04:00 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 538, message 2 of 7 I'm surprised that somebody would be so outraged about eavesdropping. The purpose of a baby monitor is to listen to the slightest sounds in a baby's room. Most monitors only have two frequencies (A or B), therefore it shouldn't be a surprise that someone else in your neighborhood can listen in. Incidentally, a couple of years ago my wife and next door neighbor did the following: house 1 house 2 transmitter a freq transmitter b freq receiver b freq receiver a freq The above arrangement established a "full duplex" speakerphone system using baby monitors. Whenever our kid was next door we would power-up the system. The nice thing about this, is you could talk to your kid if he was starting to get out of hand at the neighbor's house and vice versa. Also my wife and the people next door could talk to each other without using the standard telephone. I wonder if the above arrangement violated any existing telephone regulations. Bill Mihalo chinet!calumet!wem (uucp) or chinet!mihalo