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The other day I had a phone conversation with a friend. Throughout that conversation, I kept hearing the last 3 to 5 words that I spoke being repeated in the background, in what I could best describe as sounding like an echo.
I could hear my friend's conversation clearly and easily, however. But whenever I finished saying something, the last few words that I had just finished speaking would echo back.
Does anyone have any idea what can cause this?
Thank you,
Edward
You say a phone conversation, but what type of phone were you using ?
Was it a traditional landline phone ?
Was it a mobile phone ?
Was it a VOIP broadband cable phone ?
Was it a smart phone ?
And what kind of phone was the other end user using ?
I have noticed this "echoing" occasinally for many years when talking on a mobile phone network.
Phone systems are very complex, and even landline phones use backhaul repeaters in places where there are no wires, they use microwave repeaters to cover distances of about 40 miles (microwave is point to point, line of site only) for truncking multiple channels (voice and data).
Mobile phones work by transmitting on a radio frequency the voice and data to a tower, and then repeating the transmission over digital trunk lines (wired) on a network to the tower that then will repeat the data or voice from the tower (via radio) to the reciever which you are talking to.
In other words, when a person in Sebastapol calls someone over 4 miles away or out of range of the tower), it is tranfered to a wired network, and then repeated at the tower (that could be anywhere, like Santa Rosa or L.A.) to complete the communications with your party. Todays mobile and smart phones do not connect directly with each other, the signals are often repeated many times, and in some cases the trunking or backhaul is done with microwave repeaters between towers. Note that the individual devices themselves DO NOT and cannot use microwave communications, but the various repeating operations often cause this echoing.
Also, if you are talking to someone far away on a landline, your conversation is often being repeated on AT&T long lines microwave communications systems.
That would explian the echoing, I know it is a wierd feeling, and I don' like it one bit, but whachewgonnadoaboutit ?
And keep in mind, that AT&T, the DHS, the NSA and the FBI record all communications , that would be mobile phones , smart phones, internet e-mails and computer transactions.
The best things to do are, be careful what you say or write on ALL modern communications devices, EVERYTHING can be compromised. Use encryption when transmitting propriatary information, and just take it as a given that your are being monitored by the corporatelly run government.
If you didn't know about the huge spy center run by AT&T in their building in S.F. for the last 6 years, and about the huge new data storage center being built in Utah being paid for by US taxpayers (the NSA and FBI), well you do now know !
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Good advice on the balance, thank you.
To answer some of your questions, I have a cordless, landline. The lady I was speaking with over the phone lives in Rohnert Park, so long distance is not a factor, which would have helped explain any bad connections, interference, or other complications. It is a Panasonic phone that I bought years ago either at Best Buy or Office Depot, perhaps 5 to 7 years ago.
I don't know exactly what kind of phone she was speaking to me on but it was not her cell. She was conversing with me from her home phone, so this limits only a little bit what type of phone it is that she used.
Being careful with what you say over the phone is pretty good advice, especially if it has anything to so with the law. This doesn't prohibit, of course, a conversation with your attorney but even then you still have to be careful there as well for obvious reasons.
Thank you for your response!
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Hi Ed,
If your friend was talking on a home phone, it could have been a new digital Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone that is being sold by Comcast and other corporations.
When they first came out with VOIP phones, they were absolutely terrible voice quality and very unreliable, but now they have improved a lot. But still, I have a few friends who use VOIP, and there are still a lot of problems with voice clarity and especially dropping calls. Also some cordless phones have problems with voice clarity.
I have a 21 year old Sanyo cordless phone. It runs on 900 Mhz digital spread spectrum, it is probably the best cordless phone ever made, plus it has a speakerphone on the base AND the remote handset. The voice quality is excelent and I bought it because of the speakerphone on the handset, as I would never hold any kind of transmitter against my head.
Actually my old Sanyo cordless phone puts out 2 tenths of a watt (200mw), and the new mobile phones only put out around 250mw (the older mobile phones used to put out around 600mw). That explains why they raised the frequency and lowered the power and now have to build many more mobile phone towers, because the mobile phones are not as powerful. By the way, my Sanyo cordless has been tested a half a mile away from my house ! Try that with a new 2.4 GhZ cordless phone.
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