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Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 19:18:40 EDT
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From: clark@ssc-vax.UUCP (Roger Clark Swann)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Party line question
Keywords: pulse dialing, mechanical, electronic
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Date: 3 Jun 87 23:18:39 GMT
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**** jam for line eater ****

I recently had a question for a friend that could not figure out:

problem: electronic phone won't dial when connected to party line.

My friend has a beach house with phone service being a party line.
I don't remember if he said how many connections there are to the
line, but he said that he DOES NOT get any rings other that his own.
He normally has an WECO 500 style insturment on the line with no
problems dialing or receiving calls. However, when he tried to
hookup an 'electronic' (keypad with chip that generates dial pulses)
phone the line, he could only dial about three digits before getting
a re-order recording. He said that he could hear the 'clicks' as the
pulses were being generated and they sounded OK. Someone can call in
and the phone will ring and voice circuits are OK. (This same phone
instrument works fine at his in town residence)

The only thing I could think of was that the 'electronic phone was
not pulsing at the correct speed. But then he told me that he tried
hooking his modem to the line and making it pulse dial. The result
was the same re-order recording. So, this makes me think that there
is some strange configuration on this phone line or something???

Anyone have an idea as to what is going on here?

Roger Swann	uw-beaver!ssc-vax!clark

[Any number of reasons could cause this problem. FCC regulations don't
even *allow* you to plug in a modular instrument to a party line. --JSol]