On Mar 7, 9:28 am, wrote:
On Mar 7, 3:17?pm, "Steve" wrote:

Getting a good signal from my neighbor's cordless phone on 905 mhz. I
wonder if he QSL's?

Anyway, I figure I might as well starting posting about this kind of
crap if the group is going to be overrun by irrelevant HD posts.

Back in the 80's and early 90's, I had a Bearcat Scanner, with an 800
MHZ converter (mounted dipole in the attic), and used to listen to
cell phones, baby monitors, and cordless phones, before they went
digital and moved up in frequencies. I heard four of our neighbors
having affairs, some couples had baby monitors in their master
bedrooms, and heard a "young thing" talking with a married man over a
cell phone, threatening to tell his wife. One "young thing" was
talking dirty over her cell phone, to her boyfriend on his way over,
and I thought he was going to wreck his car. It was great, knowing
exactly what our neighbors were fighting about - the baby monitors and
cell phones had a range of at least a mile.

I remember reading in the famous hacker magazine 2600 that cell phones
and cordless phones could be heard on an old manual tuning TV that
went up to channel 83-when the FCC reassigned TV channels 70-83 in the
late 80s, phones got part of the spectrum, starting at around channel
80. This was around 1997. I immediately went out and bought an old
Sears TV at a thrift store for three bucks. I lived in the downtown
area of a major California city, and I had great fun listening to cell
phones go by on the nearby interstate. I could hear the signal being
passed from tower to tower; on my end, there would be a warning beep.
Sometimes two conversations would be going on at once. I never heard
anything REALLY juicy, since my neighbors were all too poor to afford
cell and cordless phones. I did hear a guy taking to a phone sex line
once, and a number of conversations in foreign languages (not much
Spanish back then, lots of Asian languages).