Any way to cut telephone crosstalk?

I don't think I can describe it adequately without running a serious risk of misleading you. It's a few inches long with phone cables coming out of both ends, as I recall. I haven't needed it in a few years, so it isn't too fresh in my mind.

I suggest you just call them up and describe the problem and ask if they have any ideas for a phone filter. They'll probably want to know whether it is a regular phone line or a DSL or whatever. I think they do call it a phone filter. I've never had trouble getting them to answer questions over the phone. It just cost a few bucks.

echoes?

Since it seems like other conversations(and not a radio station or CB) it looks like a exterior (telephone company ) problem. Using the old phone would change the load on the line. I had this problem on my phone lines every time it would rain. I thought it was only me until I heard the other party mention the crosstalk and the 2nd person said "Oh just ignore them, they're screwing up my line!" and I said "Uhh actually it's you screwing up mine." Anyway the phone company finally fixed the problem. Richard

What _kind_ of crosstalk? Is it your neighbor's conversation? That's crosstalk. If it's an AM station in the background, that's NOT crosstalk, that's RFI.

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I think the OP is answering the question themselves? a) Old fashioned phones were much less susceptible to interference from strong radio signals; if this is what the 'Crosstalk' is. Those older phones were simple, contained very little electronics, were rugged, tested and designed to the international standards of developed countries for performance and not that cheap. Time was when one had to get at least one main phone from the monopoly telco! Then finally the customer could get their own phone plug it in and just rent the line from the telephone company. Saw one case where a customer was trying to dial on a Canadian telephone line with an 'antique' phone they had brought back from a trip to France which had a completely different rotary dialing speed and percent make-break signalling pattern. Wouldn't ring on incoming calls either IIRC. Wondered why it wouldn't work! Or b) If the new phone is a cordless type phone with a handset you can carry around without wires it may be picking up somene else's cordless phone conversation? Seen that also; kinda funny when you pay the long distance charges for a call made by that 'other' phone! Not likely though, today with a good quality digital cordless. Or c) It's just a cheap and nasty $20 to $30 phone; many horror stories about those! Some almost tragic. Cheap phones often contain electronic components that are susceptible to picking up interference. A line powered phone may well be an indication of internal electronics? Back in the days of Bell telephone etc. having a monopoly etc. they had fixes for item a) and felt responsible for all aspects of service. Today anybody can buy an el cheapo phone not built to any particular standard and plug it in and somehow the major improvements made to the telephone networks during the last fifty years manages to cope even if the phone isn't that good! But hey ain't competition wonderful? PS I don't blame the telcos for charging $45+ an hour for dealing with some of the junk telephone gear that is sold and attached to telephone lines!