About 10 years ago now, one sunday morning, I was tuning around the SW
Bands.
(On a very common Panasonic Radio that had the basic SW frequencies. 6,000 -
19,000 approx.)

It was one of my first forrays into SWL (and one which kept me hooked.) and
after a while of tuning around
I stumbled across what seemed to be a conversation with two people, in
particular two elderly women.

At first I thought it was a radio soap/drama as the conversation was full of
gossip. (In fact one of the elderly women reported the death of a close
friend, to which the other replied with arresting apathy.)

About 5 minutes of this insued..

Then both parties said goodbye to each other and hung up, with a small beep
to signal the end of the call. I waited for about ten seconds and I heard
the ringing tone again (beep, beep..... beep,beep in case you didn't know.)

The same voice was heard (she must have picked up the phone and dialled
someone else.) And the conversation continued. (With the previous caller
being gossiped about this time,)



I know it is possible to listen into telecommunications, and they have
designated frequencies, but I was surprised to hear that kind of thing at
all so easily. I don't condone listening to private conversations, but this
was a one off, which I was surprised by.

Is this a common occurance? Has anybody else got any good stories of hearing
this kind of stuff?

Jason,I DO condone (in fact,I have a few "gadgets" here,they are legal)
listening to private conversations.You probally had your radio tuned to
somewhere around the AM 800 band and you was picking up some regular
telephone conversations on that band.Fairly common,it used to be.But
what with the advent of digital spred spectum modern day telephones and
cell phones (mobile phones) it is getting rare to pick up such
conversations on radio.
cuhulin

Listening in on private telephone conversations is where you get the
best juicey dirt.I love it! I can tell y'all stories!
cuhulin

"Jason" wrote in message
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Is this a common occurance?

Yeah, alot of the older cordless phones would put spurious emissions into
the SW bands. The ones from the late 70s or early 80s used frequencies just
above 1600 kHz for one channel.

I think the later UHF type cordless phones are SW quiet.



Has anybody else got any good stories of hearing
this kind of stuff?



Mostly it's just so much interference. But I did overhear some mope lie to
his wife and sweet talk his girlfriend. That's as good as it ever got, and
that was amusing for only a few minutes. Domestic phone just can't compete
with domestic SW as entertainment.

Frank Dresser

If I recall correct from flipping through the Radio Shack catalog at the
age of 8 or so, to look at all the stuff I *couldn't* have, cordless phones
used to be around 27 mhz, and also some were 49 mhz. Same went for Radio-
Shack RC cars. The "better" models ran at 49 mhz.

Conan Ford wrote in
3.159:

If I recall correct from flipping through the Radio Shack catalog at
the age of 8 or so, to look at all the stuff I *couldn't* have,
cordless phones used to be around 27 mhz, and also some were 49 mhz.
Same went for Radio- Shack RC cars. The "better" models ran at 49
mhz.



Follow-up, a little history he
http://www.affordablephones.net/HistoryCordless.htm

It was probably an image of a 27 mhz phone.

There used to be a divorced woman who used to live next door to me
(there are six single sisters living in that house next door to me
now,their ages range from 24 to 31 and a couple of them sisters once
told me they would give me some Pussy any time I want it) and I used to
listen to her telephone conversations on one of my Radio Shack scanner
radios.A guy used to phone her and he would talk about picking up a
chick at the mall and all about his sexual fantasies with the chicks.
cuhulin

So, what did you end up with Coon: the pussy, or a sore elbow?

"Conan Ford" wrote in message
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It was probably an image of a 27 mhz phone.

Maybe, but I've heard more than one which put spurious signals right in the
SW spectrum.

Frank Dresser

Even when your telephone is hung up,the phone operators can press some
switches and listen in to your phone.They can listen to sounds up to
about thirty feet away from your phone.Just as easily as listening to
music on the internet with computers and even webtv.
cuhulin