I'm sure my old Western Electric push-button phone ringer is
electro-mechanical, but I'm not sure how to determine what is in my
Panasonic KX-TS105B without ripping it apart. The online searches just
turn up manuals, but nothing on included or replacement parts. My
Panasonic cordless phones are even more of a mystery.
But I have had no hints of the activity you suspect. My calls all seem
to be based on time of day.
Good luck.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 7/30/2015 1:00 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
Well, it happened again. Came home, closed the door, telephone rings,
telemarketer.
So, I did a wider online search using words other than "snooping" and came up with
countless hits if I used "easvesdropping". The equipment for doing this is commercially
available, and there's even a textbook on the subject available from Amazon.
From what I can gather, you cannot do this with a conventional phone that
has an electromechanical ringer, but you can if it has a piezoelectric ringer,
actually listening by way of the ringer. Another technique is to listen by way
of the earpiece.
Now that I have a bit of a handle on the language of this nonsense,
perhaps I can find a solution, such as disconnecting the piezoelectric ringer
on my wired landline phone.
No more Mr. Niceguy.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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