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Phreaking advice?

topic posted Sat, December 3, 2005 - 8:24 PM by 


Anyone have any idea how to receive transmissions (accidentally) for 2.5 Ghz and 5.8 Ghz cordless phones?

1.) Superfantastic scanner?
2.) Cheapo ham receiver?
3.) Just buy phones in those frequencies that have 40 channel auto scan, like this one : www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do (long shot but thought I'd ask)

Of course anything picked-up would be purely accidental. Any advice on how to have an accident with one of these methods, or is it impossible as the 900 Mghz phones are phased-out?

Swaz
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  • Glenn
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    Re: Phreaking advice?

    Sun, December 4, 2005 - 1:02 PM
    In the interest of preventing accidents, I might strongly advise against a superfantastic scanner. I don't know how widely 5.8GHz scanners are available, anyway, so you may not have any risk there.

    No ham radio that I can think of is likely to cause this sort of accident. Scanning phones tend to have some intelligence in them that is coupled with the scanning feature for the purpose of preventing such accidents. These devices should be fairly safe.

    Of course, digital phones are making more frequent appearances, and are fairly good at preventing accidents, also.
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