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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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Subject: Re: COCOT's on the Corner
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Date: 20 Dec 90 05:30:36 GMT
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In article <15512@accuvax.nwu.edu> motcid!segal@uunet.uu.net (Gary
Segal) writes:

>stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes:

->How unique -- PSA's on COCOT's. I dial 0. Country music comes on. So
->does the operator. 

-A former friend of mine in
-Bloomingdale Illinios had the unfortunate problem being served by a CO
-that is close to the transmit tower for a FM radio station.  Somehow
-the radio program found it's way into the local loops...
-Apparantly Illinios Bell claimed that this was a problem for the FCC,
-but the bureaucrats had been taking years to sort out the problem.

Radio amateurs are particularly sensitive to the charge of
interference, so we try to keep up with the regs.  To my knowledge, if
a device which was not designed to be a radio receiver is receiving
and demodulating radio signals, then it is NOT the responsibility of
the radio station to fix it.  It is the responsibility of the
manufacturer or user (in this case, the phone company) to use "good
engineering practice" to insure that their lines do not receive radio.


Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)