Cordless Phone Frequencies

 

Here is the list of 10 frequencies that most cordless phones

operate on.  Almost every scanner has the capability of receiving

these frequencies.  With an indoor telescoping antenna you can

receive most cordless phones within a city block.  With an outdoor

antenna some cordlesses can be heard up to a mile away.  I was

really amazed when my friend could hear my cordless 6 blockes away,

but I can only talk on it about 2 blocks.

Listening to cordless phones is not illegal.  Cordless phones do

not fall under the laws of the ECPA (Electronics Communications

Privacy Act of 1986, Public Law 99-508).  The ECPA was forced, by

cellular phone companies, through the 99th congress which had run

two weeks late.  Legislators were so anxious to close up shop that

they spent exactly 25 seconds discussing this law's intent and

merits before rubber stamping it.  The ECPA says it's illegal to

monitor voice paging systems, SCA subcarriers on FM broadcasters,

scrambled or coded transmissions, remote broadcast or studio-

transmitter broadcast links, private microwave systems, or

Common Carriers.  A Common Carrier is a communication service

available to the general public for hire, such as a car phone.

Tone only pagers, cordless phones, and systems relating to

aircraft or maritime communications are exempted from the ECPA.

Anyway, I thought I would throw in that above bit of information,

because there are hundreds of scanner owners who are afraid of

listening to cordless phone calls because they heard of this

ridicules ECPA law, and that they can get fined thousands of

dollars for doing so.  Funny thing is that if you were listening

to these illegal systems, who would know inless you told them.

One law about scanner listening is that everything you do hear,

you are supposed to keep to yourself anyway.  Happy listening.

In the below list at the left is the cordless phone channel number.

Many cordless phones say channel A or B, ect.  and it's hard to

tell exactly how they actually have their channel numbering

scheme to match the true channel numbers.  In the second line

is the frequency in MGZ, that the base unit transmits on.  This

is the frequency that most listeners will listen too, because

you can hear both parties.  The third line is the frequency in MGZ,

that the remote unit transmits on.  This is usually not that

great to listen too because usually you can only hear the party

using the cordless phone, and another reason is that a lot of

baby monitors operate on these frequencies in this same range,

and keep your scanner locked on these channels.  With a little

monitoring you will develop your own choices in what to listen too.

 Channel #            Base Freq              Remote Freq

   #1                   46.61                   49.67

   #2                   46.63                   49.845

   #3                   46.67                   49.86

   #4                   46.71                   49.77

   #5                   46.73                   49.875

   #6                   46.77                   49.83

   #7                   46.83                   49.89

   #8                   46.87                   49.93

   #9                   46.93                   49.99

   #10                  46.97                   49.97

Other cordless phones may be found on other frequencies not

known to this author at this time.  If you know of any, please

send me a letter to the following address:

The Yo-Yo!

Box 744

Hemingford NE  693480744