Phone Conversation over Scanner

matthewpd · #1 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 06:28 PM

I'm new to scanning and today, I was at my desk at home and heard a phone conversation. It came in very scratchy. Can someone explain to me why this happened? It never happened before. Thanks.

Grog · #2 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by matthewpd

Can someone explain to me why this happened?

Someone was having a phone conversation that had transmitted a signal that your scanner received.

More information is needed to provide a better answer.

matthewpd · #3 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Grog

Someone was having a phone conversation that had transmitted a signal that your scanner received.

More information is needed to provide a better answer.

What info is needed?

Grog · #4 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 06:41 PM

What frequency your scanner heard it on, if you know.

matthewpd · #5 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Grog

What frequency your scanner heard it on, if you know.

It was 463.175

Grog · #6 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 06:54 PM

It could have been a repeater used for making telephone calls.

kc4wwu · #7 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 07:20 PM

Isn't that Med-8 ??

AlabamaRS · #8 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 07:20 PM

463.175 is 1 of the Set aside frequencies known as "MED Channels" what you heard was medic or Ambulance talking on a phone patch to the Hospital, probably giving vital signs & other Medical info before or during transport. the frequencies set aside are 463.000 - 462.200Mhz ( or may be 463.175) with 12.5Mhz spacing & also +5Mhz for the mobiles

tyytor · #9 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 07:21 PM

be warned you could be charged for monitoring phone calls!!!! it is aginst the law
even if you do not mean to do it, see;

http://www.rapidnet.com/~scansd/case1.html

AlabamaRS · #10 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by tyytor

be warned you could be charged for monitoring phone calls!!!! it is aginst the law
even if you do not mean to do it, see;

http://www.rapidnet.com/~scansd/case1.html

And who asked you??>. that WAS not anywhere in the OPS post???

Grog · #11 (**permalink**) 10-04-2008, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by kc4wwu

Isn't that Med-8 ??

Doh !1!1!1!1!

There is not a lot of UHF MED channel use near me so I overlooked that

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index...Services_Radio

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Originally Posted by tyytor

be warned you could be charged for monitoring phone calls!!!! it is aginst the law even if you do not mean to do it

Thank you Mr Helper

Maybe you can consider that the OP might have heard DTMF and misconstrued that as a phone call?

N467RX · #12 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 02:30 AM

I don't know what kind of system it is, but at least an LTR system back in Panama had telephone interconnect, and people talked about a bunch of stuff as if their conversation was private, you saw it as a normal TG, but it was a call, it does get annoying after some time (it was always the same 3 or 4 ppl)

IBN01 · #13 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 03:06 AM

Used to get that a lot here in Vegas actually. Think it was just bleed over from a tower being too close to the other or something like that

tyytor · #14 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by AlabamaRS

And who asked you??>. that WAS not anywhere in the OPS post???

"Someone was having a phone conversation"
"Phone Conversation over Scanner"

jleverin · #15 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 05:57 AM

My scanner has occasionally picked up a real scratchy signal of someone's phone, couldn't tell what they were saying but you'd hear the phone ringing right before they started talking. I also picked up a phone signal at the local mall police office about a quarter mile away from my house. Doesn't happen often and I just generally ignore it. I know you aren't supposed to be listening in on phone conversations. I suppose some cordless phones do emit a signal that get snatched up by scanners from time to time.

AlabamaRS · #16 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by tyytor

"someone Was Having A Phone Conversation"
"phone Conversation Over Scanner"

Still A Troll

kb2vxa · #17 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 08:23 AM

Now you see why in the military the "standing orders" are don't ask, don't tell. You guys are so much fodder for Hamsexy fun. (;->)

baronofbeer · #18 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 05:35 PM

Every once in a while I will get someone leaving a voicemail over the Bureau County Sheriff (illinois) dispatch frequency on 151.325. Either it's coming over on that frequency or somehow it's getting into their repeater.

Anyone else get this?

tyytor · #19 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by AlabamaRS

Still A Troll

i do not know what you have to show???
i was just trying to keep some one out of jail!!

kg4ojj · #20 (**permalink**) 10-05-2008, 07:05 PM

Matt,

It's likely EMS traffic to a distant hospital.

Back in the 80s, I was a medic in Georgia. We had to "dial-up" the specific hospital to talk to the ER. Using 155.340, I could sit (at night especially) and hear remote stations and mobile units. Some times you could hear the tones, especially if someone dialed 133333 (the all-call/emergency tone, which opened all radios).

If your scanner is newer than 1996, then you wouldn't likely receive a cellular phone transmission. Of course, I won't say never.......bleed over from adjacent towers, etc. is possible....not probable, though.

Now, if you could catch the callsign, you could look it up (wireless.fcc.gov) to see who it belongs to....