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From: mayer@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Loud telephone clicks
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 20:52:04 EST
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From: Jim Mayer  <mayer>

Most (all?) of the telephones I use produce loud, sharp, clicks while
making connections.  I find the clicks very anoying, and often actually
painful.  Holding the phone away from my ear works, but sometimes
(depending on the quality of the connection) makes it hard to hear when
the call is answered.  Does anyone knows of a product or a trick that
might help?

I would think that a low pass filter could be fitted in the circuit
somewhere to deaden the clicks; if it interfered with voice quality too
much it could be set up with a bypass switch.  Alternately, and much
more (too) expensively, I have heard of a black box that helps suppress
pops and scratches in old records -- it cuts them out of the signal and
substitues a snippet of the adajacent signal.

-- Jim Mayer					University of Rochester
(arpa) mayer@Rochester.ARPA			Department of Computer Science
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       (via allegra, decvax, or seismo)		Rochester, New York 14627