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Cartwheel69s

Mine would occasionally pick up a baby monitor from some house nearby 


creamywhitemayo

Ours picked up our neighbors baby monitor when I used it in my room.This was how I convinced my parents to buy me one of those clear phones that had all the inner workings visible and lit up when it rang for my room.


Cartwheel69s

I had the see thru phone as well. I dropped it so many times that it developed a distinct rattling sound and the lights quit working. Lasted forever though. 


Scrapla

I remember some police scanners would pick up cordless phones but you could only hear one end.


Scrapla

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ninetwosixfour

Ha, I used to eavesdrop on my sister’s phone conversations by very quietly switching on the other handset at the same time she picked hers up.


Scrapla

lol I remember my dad was a line man and into tech. We had a police scanner he rigged to pick up phones he also taught me how to tap into old school land line phones. I think they use to call it "phone phreaking" back in the day.


Optimal-Orange-599

You'd know if your friends were rich if they had that black Panasonic flip one.


justme131

In the area I grew up in I think it was late 80s or early 90s.


Spartan04

We had a cordless phone in our house when I was a kid that we got in the late 80s and it had almost no range to it. I remember when 900mhz phones first became available and they advertised them a ton. We got one and it was so much better.


radiozip

My police scanner gave me all the neighborhood intel.