If you're on your cordless phone in your home? I've heard that its possible for neighbors with baby monitors to do this to their neighbors, and I wouldn't think this would work, unless my cordless phone acts as a monitor.
2007-09-22 18:36:02 · 6 answers · asked by Lady 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Land Phones
It's possible if the phone and the monitors work in the same broadcast frequency.
Most do not, however. Modern cordless phones operate in the 2.4ghz wavelength, and older ones operate in the 900mhz wavelength (the newest ones operate in the 5.2ghz wavelength, but don't worry about those).
Most baby monitors work in the 300-900mhz wavelength, so a few of them *can* pick up on older cordless phones, but those that do are few and far between... especially becase every phone and monitor is coded to only pick up a very specific frequency around their specified range... so crosstalk is less likely.
2007-09-22 18:43:58 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that guys answer was way long.. but he made a huge error... it is NOT legal to knowingly listen in to a telephone conversation where you do not have permission of at least one person in the conversation...
people also forget that there were cordless phones before the 900 mhz phones, the old 25 channel cordless phones were the same frequencies as many baby monitors, so this was very possible.... and 900 mhz phones WITHOUT DSS as well as the older phones can be heard with a radio scanner that anyone can buy at radioshack...
900mhz with DSS, 2.4Ghz, 5.8Ghz and DECT (1.9 Ghz) phones all are digital, and use some form of encryption, or channel hopping, to prevent anyone from overhearing your conversation...
2007-09-24 16:20:18 · answer #2 · answered by joe r 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happens. I've picked up a few weird transmissions on the baby monitor. I'm not sure who it was though. I have picked up on neighbors conversations while I was on my own cordless. It made me wonder who could hear me!
2007-09-22 18:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've heard many cordless phones are on the baby monitor frequency
2016-05-21 04:36:23 · answer #4 · answered by shanda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is completely possible if the baby monitor and the cordless phone work on the same frequency and are the appropriate type of radio signal. AND it is completely LEGAL for you to listen in! The FCC has held in court that as a private citizen, you can listen in on anything you can receive. However, the caveat is, you have to keep it to yourself. It is illegal to let others listen in or to others listen to a recording you made. In other words, as long as it is you and you alone (which includes family members living under the same roof) it is completely legal to listen in on a conversation on your neighbor's cordless phone. You just can't do anything with any information you might overhear. A cordless telephone, as with being on the open street, holds no expectation of privacy regarding anyone overhearing the radio transmission. The cordless phone industry got it passed into law that scanners are no longer built being able to receive the frequencies they use after a tape of a political candidate on a cell phone was released. The act of releasing the tape was illegal (as I recall, however, the lawyer who did it was never prosecuted), not the person who listened to the call on his scanner, but the phone companies got it passed to ban scanners able to receive the phone company cell phone frequencies. So, you can listen in, but it is illegal to do anything with what you hear. Just be aware that if you use a cordless phone of any kind, it is possible someone, a private citizen, could be legally listening in on your conversation. And with Dubya's PATRIOT Act, you can have Dubya's friends and cronies listening in as well without a warrant even! Don't blame me! I didn't vote for the twerp! There is one kind of cordless phone which is very difficult, almost impossible even, to listen in on, one which uses "spread spectrum" technology. Spread spectrum is a freuency shifting scheme. As the phone is being used, the transmitter and receiver synchronize to change "channels" in sync. You do not hear any difference, but any given "channel" is in use for a fraction of a second before like a ballet, the transmitter and receiver switch to a new channel. Since they are in sync, communication continues uninterrupted. Since a scanner does not know which frequency will be used next, it can't follow the change The random jumping around the spectrum means that two phones with overlapping ranges are unlikely to interfere with each other, and if they do, it is for a fraction of a second. This kind of interference is like a momentary blank spot, or a soft click as the signals either cancel or interfere with each other. The only way to eavesdrop on this is to simultaneously listen in to ALL of the channels and later reassemble the segments from the various channels. Since there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of channels, it is virtually impossible for the average citizen to afford the resources. However, Dubya and company can afford the resources required, at your and my taxpayer expense, of course. As far as Dubya is concerned, you have NO right of privacy, as all he need do is claim national security and cite the war on terrorism and he does not even need a warrant to tap your phones wireless or not, and see what books you check out of the library, and it is illegal for the library to even TELL you they looked at your records of books you checked out! We are SO close to George Orwell's "1984" and no one seems to be nothered by this!
2007-09-22 19:27:10 · answer #5 · answered by rowlfe 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think sometimes it is possilbe.
2007-09-23 14:52:59 · answer #6 · answered by donielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋