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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Cordless phone makes funny noises
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.201046.17415@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:10:46 GMT
- References: <1717@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
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- In article <1717@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM> lsnow@ncrclm.ClemsonSC.NCR.COM (Linda Snow) writes:
- >I've had my (Panasonic) cordless for a few months, and it just started
- >doing this a few days ago. I hear sort of popping noises and the party
- >on the other end can hear them too. Changing the channel doesn't always
- >help. It seems to be better if I hold the phone away from my head a
- >little bit, but that's pretty inconvenient. Could it be caused by
- >static electricity? (We have had some pretty cold weather lately). It
- >doesn't affect the quality of the sound but it's annoying.
-
- Are there any flourescent lights near the phone or the base set?
-
- If so, try to move the base far away from any flourescent lights,
- and try to keep the handset away too. This might help a lot.
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- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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