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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: Reverse-voltage Phone Line Test
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Date: 8 Apr 90 08:17:56 GMT
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In article <6070@accuvax.nwu.edu> randyd@microsoft.UUCP (William R. Day) 
writes:

>In article <5900@accuvax.nwu.edu> uop!quack!mrapple@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu 
>(Nick Sayer) writes:

>>If I'm up late at night, I sometimes hear a short beep from the phone.
>Same here. It seems that every night at about 11:30pm the phones in
>our house give a short half-ring. What is going on? I've decided the
>regularity is too great for this to be random noise on the line.

I get it around 12:30.  For me it's a full ring though.
I have a fax/modem switch on the line, and it things it's getting
a ring and passes it on.  It used to be on my house line and there
it would wake me up, usually every Sunday and Wednesday night.
I've got to assume that it wouldn't normally ring the phone, but that
either my switch is too sensitive, or they are out of spec.  I'd *love*
to know what it is though.


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