Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 14:23:50 CDT From: TELECOM Moderator Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: My New Toy: Call Forwarder From Radio Shack Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 277, Message 4 of 9 Lines: 29 Over the weekend I bought a CPS-200 Call Forwarding System from Radio Shack. At the local store here, they had one left, marked down to $29.95, and I thought that price alone made it worthwhile. This unit does require two actual phone lines; one to accept calls, and the other to forward the call. Since I have 'genuine' call forwarding from Illinois Bell, I won't need it a lot, but one good use came to mind: I'll use it to remotely turn on call forwarding on my main line! The device takes calls on (relative to it) 'line 1' and forwards the call on (relative to it) 'line 2'. You call on the device's 'line 2' to remotely make changes in the forwarded number and turn the device on or off. Device line 1/2 < = > 2/1 on my phones. So I call on device line 2 (my phone line 1) and it answers after 17 rings. I tell it to 'forward' my calls to 1172-new-number. I hang up and call back on device line 1 (my phone line 2) and my call forces the device to dial out on phone line 1 '1172-new-number'. Presto, forwarding has been established, and subsequent calls to my phone line 1 go to wherever the forwarding (1172) said to go. The only problem is I cannot change that number or cancel forwarding since after forwarding has been established, telco controls my line and I can't get near the device (via phone line 1 / device line 2) until I come home and kill it with 1173. Let me work on this scheme a little longer. PAT