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From: rap@oliveb.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: modem plays the radio?
Message-ID: <3874@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 12:40:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.3874
Posted: Tue Aug 25 12:40:41 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Aug-87 01:36:29 EDT
References: <2187@sphinx.uchicago.edu> <194@genat.UUCP> <2489@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rap@olivej.UUCP (Robert A. Pease)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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In article <2489@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> jeffb@alvin.UUCP (Jeffrey B. Butterworth) writes:
>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.
>
>					Thanks,
>						Jeff Butterworth
>						North Carolina

Be advised.  If you have trouble with radio signals in  your
phone wireing you can call the service center for your phone
company and they will install an RFC (Radio Frequency Choke)
in  your  line  which  will block the radio signal before it
gets into your home.

This is a known and common problem with homes near  a  radio
transmitter  and  is  not limited to AM broadcast band radio
(ie. if the ham radio operator causes you trouble the  phone
company will help with that too).

Call them and ask.  It couldn't hurt.
-- 

					Robert A. Pease
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