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Pete
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Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject:
Voip house wiring is picking up AM radio |
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I've just disconnected by house telephone wiring from the street at the
demark box and have plugged by SunRocket "Gizmo" into my house wiring.
Everything works fine, except I'm getting a gospel station. From a
little research I've done on the net, I'm guessing that unplugging my
house wiring at the demarc has disconnected a ground that kept this
from happening before.
Does that sound right? Anyone have an idea how to fix?
Thanks in advance. |
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
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Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:42 am Post subject:
Re: Voip house wiring is picking up AM radio |
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"Pete" <pdbdisk@gmail.com> writes:
| Quote: | I've just disconnected by house telephone wiring from the street at the
demark box and have plugged by SunRocket "Gizmo" into my house wiring.
Everything works fine, except I'm getting a gospel station. From a
little research I've done on the net, I'm guessing that unplugging my
house wiring at the demarc has disconnected a ground that kept this
from happening before.
Does that sound right? Anyone have an idea how to fix?
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Why not just tell callers that your phone has permanent music-on-hold? ;-)
I take it you are very near some gospel radio station?
The problem is likely caused by your ATA. If the unit doesn't have
proper RF filtering and you attach a lot of wire to it (like attaching
it to your house wiring instead of a short 3-ft patch cord), you could
see problems.
Google for RF interference. It is not uncommon for some audio
electronics to cheap out in the RF filtering department and leave out
any RF filters on the inputs and outputs.
As a start I'd go to some electronics store and buy bag of ferrite
beads and slip one over each individual wire going into and out of the
ATA and see if that helps. If not, I'd look for a better ATA.
-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ |
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Rick Merrill
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Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:53 am Post subject:
Re: Voip house wiring is picking up AM radio |
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Pete wrote:
| Quote: | I've just disconnected My house telephone wiring from the street at the
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Be sure you have disconnected ALL wires, taped them off, AND put a note
on them saying "Leave these wires un-connected - lines are driven from
elsewhere"
| Quote: | demark box and have plugged by SunRocket "Gizmo" into my house wiring.
Everything works fine, except I'm getting a gospel station.
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It's a miracle!
| Quote: | little research I've done on the net, I'm guessing that unplugging my
house wiring at the demarc has disconnected a ground that kept this
from happening before.
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That is very likely! OR you have a ground loop - one of the old wires
is still connected.
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Does that sound right? Anyone have an idea how to fix?
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Connect just one (1) phone directly to the Gizmo - does the problem
still exist? |
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