The Mystery of the Ghost Calls
Yeah, I know it sounds like some old Nancy Drew novel, but this mystery is driving me batty, and maybe some "detective" out there on the Forum can solve it. In my home, I have 3 phones connected to...
Forum Discussion
You say the phone rings even though you have the ringer turned OFF (I assume the switch is on the handset) could it have been the base ringing?
Cordless phones (This includes cell phones) are radios, and thus are subject to radio frequency interference.... But with the Ringer OFF. they should not ring, period.
Radio frequency interference can come from many sources.. Florescent lights. LED lights, Other electronic hardware including your computer and of course the CBer next door with a non-linear amplifier (He thinks it is linear but well, not the way he adjusted it).. Ham radio operators are more likely to have their hardware properly adjusted. (I push 100 watts into the wire here and before she crashed the car wife used to watch TV while I did it.. In fact, so did I, on a pocket TV next to the radio... That puppy was super sensitive to interference of any kind)
However short of the high power CBer, NOTHING should be able to ring that phone if the ringer is turned OFF.
Short story: I know of a ham (I actually have had dinner with this guy) who had a neighbor woman complain his radios were causing TVI (Television interference, a form of Radio Interference).. So he went over to her house to discuss it.. She sat down to watch a show and said "See It's happening now" (Mind you he was standing there beside the chair so he could not possibly be on the radio).
She was sure it was him though because it only bothered HER SHOWS, not any of her husbands and as you know all men watch the same shows. (Ok, I did not say she was capable of logical thinking).
Well Quincy (John Quincy Adams SR, not not that JQA but he did work for the government,,,, Just not quite that high up). finally traced it to the heat pad she turned on when SHE sat down. New heat pad and neighborhood harmony returned... (There is another part tot his story but it does not fit here as well as this part.. involves a different wife.. (his).)
Cordless phones (This includes cell phones) are radios, and thus are subject to radio frequency interference.... But with the Ringer OFF. they should not ring, period.
Radio frequency interference can come from many sources.. Florescent lights. LED lights, Other electronic hardware including your computer and of course the CBer next door with a non-linear amplifier (He thinks it is linear but well, not the way he adjusted it).. Ham radio operators are more likely to have their hardware properly adjusted. (I push 100 watts into the wire here and before she crashed the car wife used to watch TV while I did it.. In fact, so did I, on a pocket TV next to the radio... That puppy was super sensitive to interference of any kind)
However short of the high power CBer, NOTHING should be able to ring that phone if the ringer is turned OFF.
Short story: I know of a ham (I actually have had dinner with this guy) who had a neighbor woman complain his radios were causing TVI (Television interference, a form of Radio Interference).. So he went over to her house to discuss it.. She sat down to watch a show and said "See It's happening now" (Mind you he was standing there beside the chair so he could not possibly be on the radio).
She was sure it was him though because it only bothered HER SHOWS, not any of her husbands and as you know all men watch the same shows. (Ok, I did not say she was capable of logical thinking).
Well Quincy (John Quincy Adams SR, not not that JQA but he did work for the government,,,, Just not quite that high up). finally traced it to the heat pad she turned on when SHE sat down. New heat pad and neighborhood harmony returned... (There is another part tot his story but it does not fit here as well as this part.. involves a different wife.. (his).)
