corded phone play music - Radio station

In the old days, a capacitor across the headphone did the trick. Wonder if a DSL filter would work. You could also try a ferrite core around the cord, wrapped a couple of turns.

greg\

First, plug another phone into the line to see if it's coming from the phone or the line. If it's the phone, perhaps there's a bad ground on a shield or something but that doesn't sound likely. More likely there are corroded, wet or otherwise damaged phone wires in your house. If you plug directly into the network interface and the problem's gone then I would think it's somewhere in the wires within the home. If you were to plug a different phone directly into the phone company's network interface then the problem is somewhere in their lines and they should repair it. Basically eliminate possible sources one at a time until you find where the radio noise is coming from. The last item left, however unlikely is probably the culprit!

One thing I've been guilty of--and which came back to bite me squarely in the ass--was mounting phone jacks with the RG jack hole facing UP.

Bad idea.

It makes it much easier to plug in the phone, but the jack collects 'stuff' which, when wet, or even moist, corrodes the contacts and eventually shorts out the line. Before that happens, however, the corrosion could conceivably act as a diode and detect strong radio signals.....

jak