Baby monitor spying ???

**Lady's Human** · 09-30-2007, 04:03 PM

Our park manager listens to the cordless phone call over his CB radio (so I have been told) just to make sure there is no drug dealings going on in here.

CB radios operate on a frequency of 26.9-27.4 Mhz.

Cordless phones operate in the 46-49Mhz bands (1st generation), 902-927 Mhz (second generation), 2.4 Ghz (3rd Generation), and 5.8 Ghz (4th Generation)

Listening to private conversations on a hand held scanner (or a base mount scanner) for any reason is illegal in many areas. Most police scanners can pick up calls from second gen portable phones, but they aren't capable of picking up the 2.4Ghz and 5.8Ghz signals. 1st and second gen cell phones also operate in frequency ranges (800-900Mhz) that a police scanner can pick up, but 99% of those phones have been recycled by now.

**chocolatepuppy** · 09-30-2007, 05:03 PM

NOW, you could use that to your advantage if you ever need to... Like saying "Someone told me the law is watching their house really close and getting the tag numbers of people who come over...."

Laura, I've already told her years ago to her face on her front porch that we can't wait until the whole bunch goes to jail (some are in jail,again

) I also told her I'd do what I could to help her along.

She knows a few neighbors call the police regular and we have given license numbers. While the selling of drugs has died down, they are still druggies.

I'm sure she's gotton an earful of me and my good neighbor slamming her more than once. The information I got was she was listening to her neighbors, could it be us or another neighbor or more.

**chocolatepuppy** · 09-30-2007, 05:10 PM

Ladys Human, my cordless is 2.4 ghz and is 900mhz. How safe is that? Would a higher ghz or mhz be safer?
Also, I don't know how accurate the story I got was, the info was that it was a baby monitor. Or could it be a scanner of some sort? I can't imagine someone calling it a baby monitor unless it was one.

**Lady's Human** · 09-30-2007, 05:32 PM

Police scanners don't pick up 2.4 Ghz, and many phones operating on 2.4 Ghz and higher use spread-spectrum, so it would be highly improbable that someone outside of the NSA could pick up the signal.

BTW, a quick definition of terms:

Radio frequencies are expressed in terms of Hertz, or Cycles per Second.

House current is 60 Hz, or 60 cycles per second.

AM radio stations broadcast in Kilohertz, or thousands of cycles per second. (Khz)

FM radio stations broadcast in Megahertz, or millions of cycles per second. (Mhz)

Devices operating in the Gigahertz bands are broadcasting in billions of cycles per second. (Ghz)

**chocolatepuppy** · 09-30-2007, 09:03 PM

From all of the info I'm getting, here and elsewhere, it seems highly unlikely she is sitting over there and listening to a complete conversation. Could have been a freak thing she picked something up at one point or picks something up occasionally.
I had to wonder though tonight. She came home(my dogs let me know) and I was talking to dear old mom on the phone. She got back in her car and left. We must be too boring.