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From: jeffb@mcnc.UUCP (Jeffrey B. Butterworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: modem plays the radio?
Message-ID: <2489@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 15:36:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: alvin.2489
Posted: Mon Aug 24 15:36:58 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Aug-87 04:35:25 EDT
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Reply-To: jeffb@alvin.UUCP (Jeffrey B. Butterworth)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Summary: Maybe the wiring in your house.

I've had the same problem with my modem.  I waited for six weeks for my dream
come true, a 2400 baud Mitac modem.  As soon as I got it, I ripped it out of the
box, hooked it up, turned it on, and found out how to make mock apple pie from a
local radio show.

After some experimentation, I found that I could get the normal modem noises to 
take over the speaker by turning up the volume.  Now the beeping of the modem
can wake the dead.  Another way of shutting off the country music and talk
shows was to turn the volume way down.  Unfortunately, turning the volume down
that far causes the speaker to be silent altogether.

I discovered that the radio only plays when the modem is hooked into the phone
outlet.  Of course, that helps me very little, since my modem is one of the old
fashioned kind that has to be hooked into the telephone network.  This
discovery does suggest though, that the telephone wiring is acting as an
antenna.  I'm not sure if I have sub-standard wiring.  It could also be caused
by the presence of a rather powerful AM radio station in the same part of town.

If there are any more possessed modem stories out there, please tell me.  I'd
love to be able to here my modem dialing without disturbing the neighbors two
blocks away.

					Thanks,
						Jeff Butterworth
						Raleigh, NC
						Microelectronics Center of
						North Carolina