Evesdropping on phone calls

[lamarbur]

so much for spell check. used the drop down boxes, made changes and wa-lla instant wrong words..

 

[Spencer]

Thanks everybody for your input on this. I certainly don't have it figured out yet but I am still working on it. We do not have any intercoms of any kind so that it out. Our neighbors did come over on Christmas to drop off some gifts. While they were here I was surprised that they mentioned their scanner and how they were able to listen in on their son's new FRS radios with it. They gave my daughter a couple of big stuffed animals as presents. Last night I kidded to my wife that this is how they were doing it. I joked that they were putting bugs into the stuffed animals. They had given us a "Little Bear" a couple of years ago. I guess the battery must have worn out and thats why they had to give us the new stuffed animals.

 

[OkeeDon]

Does your daughter ever stop over at the neighbor's house for milk and cookies? You may be too young to remember the old Art Linkletter show, "Kids will say the darnedest things"...

 

[Spencer]

Don, know that is not what is going on either. Somebody else mentioned a common friend or neighbor but that is not the case.

 

[TresCrows]

I have that old Radio Shack frequency counter. I use it when checking radio frequencies and stuff like that on airplanes.
It does not work so well with modern cell phones.
Get your wife a new cell phone, simple /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif.
I have a scanner I bought back in Houston years ago. I dropped it once and after that it started picking up cell phones--EASILY. Now that they are digital all I get is funny noises BUT then there are still a few analog units around. The scanner has the ability to search for an active nearby freqeuncy by using the squealch. It also picks up cordless phones easily but nowadays most are digital or spread spectrum etc and so that is a problem.
I used to hear all kinds of "juicy" info /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif on my scanner. Unless he is a real radio nut with some high dollar equipment I really doubt he can listen in on a newer cordless or a newer cell phone. Look, they practically give cell phones away, get her a new phone, you too, what, you guys still got those old bag phones or something?---because, if you guys are still using phones from like 5 years ago then he probably can hear you /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. J

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> those old bag phones </font>

We had one of those at work. We alternated being on-call, so every fourth week, you got the football! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I still remember all the lectures we got about dropping it, keeping it out of heat, damp, etc... it was a BIG DEAL back then... hee hee. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Spencer]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Get your wife a new cell phone, simple . )</font>

I did call Sprint to talk to them about it. They assured me that my wifes Samsung (SPH-A460) Dual Band/Tri-Mode phone only worked in digital mode when on their Sprint PSC network. My wife is always on the Sprint network so theoretically she should always be in digital mode. Her phone alerts you when you are out of their network and you have to press a button to make or receive calls when not on the Sprint PCS network. I am going to take her phone into the local service center to get the software upgraded to the latest version to see if it will help improve the reception. I will talk to the local service tech about this more when I go in.

My cell phone is a Motorola V60i on Verizons network. I've had three different versions of this phone starting out with the V60c. I am pretty familiar with the phone and I would notice if it were in analog mode because it shows up on the phones display.

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

Do you call anyone close enough that your neighbor might be picking up on their phone, rather than yours?

I have to agree that it seems the only way you are going to find out if it is the phones and which one, is to selectively test them, one at a time. Find someone you know you can trust that does not live nearby. Call them and discuss plans for your new Hog/Chicken farm with 10,000 critters. You might even add how you plan to skirt environmental rules by digging a big well and pumping droppings into the ground so they can be washed away in the water table. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Yep, that ought to be enough to do it. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Steve

PS, on the odd chance it might be a "Brainwave Monitor" as previously suggested, you might want to start covering your hair with aluminum foil. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[TresCrows]

Well, I did a little research to confirm what I already new, there is no way that your neighbor could be eves dropping on your digital cell phones or digital/spread spectrum cordless phones. I doubt there is any way he can "hear" your corded phone either. Even a radio savvy person could not easily build a scanner that would do any of the above things because they would still need the encryption software to back the messages out. I could build the scanner, with some effort, but I could not write the software /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. Does he by chance work for a cell company or the phone company. Really, even an advanced amateur radio hobbiest could not do what you claim is being done.
Have they bugged your house--illegal, bugged your phone--illegal, I really doubt that as well. You know, some people are very nosey and that coupled with an "intuivitive" sense that some people do have may explain their apparent knowledge of your supposedly private life. If they are eves dropping on your phones I will eat crow /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif and if they are please get him to e-mail me how he does it cuz I want to also /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif. J.

 

[Egon]

Does that mean we should retire our phone with the crank on the side?

Egon