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Subject: [RFI] Phone RFI filter
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> (Jim Reisert AD1C)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 18:23:55 -0500
At 08:06 PM 3/25/2000 +0000, Pete Smith wrote:

>I just took apart one of Radio shack's $19.95 telephone RFI filters and was
>appalled to find that it contains nothing but a small toroid with about 25
>turns of the telephone signal leads wound on it.  Now I know a dollar
>doesn't go very far these days, but really!

And it's only one twisted pair, right?  So it will break 2-line phones from 
the same outlet!

- Jim


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