Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!gryphon!vector!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: portal!cup.portal.com!JDurand@apple.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Panasonic Answering Machine Problems Message-ID: Date: 25 Nov 89 18:44:32 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 532, message 8 of 10 Alex Baylin comments: >One day I walked-in just as the machine picked up a call. I heard >what sounded like my answering machine flashing the hook and playing >with call-waiting. >The line is a normal CO line with touch-tone and call-waiting. The >switch is 5ESS. What is happening is while one person is trying to leave a message, a second person calls. The loud click you hear before and after a call waiting tone is really a loop current drop. Loop current is only dropped on a normal phone call when the calling party hangs up. Your machine is seeing this drop and assuming the calling party has hung up. The fix is simple, turn off call waiting except when you are personally using the phone. Jerry Durand Durand Interstellar, Inc. jdurand@cup.portal.com [Moderator's Note: You refer to this as simple? How do you 'turn off call waiting except when you are personally using the phone'? Please explain this. I don't know how it can be done. Call waiting is programmed in the CO; you can turn it *off* when you are using the phone with *70; but it comes back on when you disconnect. You can never turn it *on*, except by default when you replace the receiver. PT]