If you're talking on the phone and you hear a click...

[VLC98]

could that be a sign that the call is being monitored?

[WeRQ4U]

1. Perhaps........or just call waiting.

In all honesty, you've been monitored for years. Only now, the President admits it.

[VLC98]

6. It's not call waiting. I have that and..

know how it sounds, (although I'll admit I don't know how to interrupt the call I'm on).

[WeRQ4U]

10. LOL.

I was just messing with ya. It's funny how I would never have thought anything of it before, but now, knowing what I know about King George and his search for domestic skuttlebutt, I think every click and beep in the NSA listening to my conversation.

[CornField]

2. Yes, by someone who doesn't have the latest technology

The newest technology allows phone conversations and other transmissions to be listened to and/or recorded without any interference on any of the speaking lines.

[mongo]

21. A lot depends on your central switching office too

If you are on old equiptment, you are more likely to hear the clicks.

[Demit]

3. I read recently that with today's technology, you wouldn't hear a click

[txindy]

4. My phone has this echoing sound, now. I never had it before.

No, I'm not suspecting a monitor, but it is the oddest thing, out of the blue. :wtf:

[Touchdown]

13. echo canceller is probably down.

it's a box with some un-reliable power supplies that blocks out the echoing in phone calls of over 60 miles. Phone co. is probably on it, but if it persists, call them and get them to check it out.

[txindy]

18. Thanks! I've never heard of that before.

Makes sense. :hi:

[FranzFerdinand]

5. yeah, if you're Tony Soprano...

;)

[Inland]

7. It's a sign you are speaking Xhosa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_language

[VLC98]

9. Thanks to DU, I learn something new everyday! nt.

[Marie26]

8. Nah

If you were monitored, you'd never know it. From what I understand, actual phone taps are old-fashioned.

[VLC98]

12. Perhaps I should add...

that the call originated from an Air Force base?

[Touchdown]

11. or it could be a 60 year old wire that's rusting out.

Phone technician here. :hi:

Not everything is a conspiracy. Remember, telephones were invented in 1878. Lots of old, deteriorating wires out there. Clicking is a sign of poor connections. Crosstalk (Two conversations where all 4 parties can hear everything) is also a factor. Neither are signs of surveilance, just tech problems.

We can get into any phone call at any time. There is no clicking with our equipment, and nobody knows we're there. I can only assume that the Gov't has the same testing equipment they use for surveilence. A pre-emptive explaination here... We're only there to listen for clear signals, and we don't even know who's on the phone with who. Techs go by circuit numbers, not phone numbers. Believe me, 900 calls get boring after the 3rd one. Nobody at the phone company cares what you're talking about, much less know who's talking. We've heard it all and have 50-200 circuits to test by 4pm, so we don't care that Aunt Mabel has shingles.

[VLC98]

14. Hello, I remember you!

Thanks for the info. I was just feeling nervous and a bit guilty because I was having a major rant to my husband, who was calling me from work, when there was a noticeable click on the line.

[havocmom]

16. Could your husband have been on a line with extensions?

They still click when some nosey so 'n so picks up to eavesdrop.

[VLC98]

17. Good question. I'm going to ask him when he gets home. nt.

[endarkenment]

15. The NSA's system

intercepts communications at the switches not at your phone or your house. This is not about planting 'bugs', it is about wholesale totalitarian big brother monitoring of everyone. No clicks, no wires, no devices.

[Left Is Write]

19. I would assume it was call waiting.

[NNN0LHI]

20. You damn right it could be

Then on the other hand it could just a easily be a mouse eating your telephone wiring?

:shrug:

Don