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From: wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Electrical pulse on telephone lines?
Summary: Phone almost-ring late at night
Keywords: ring
Message-ID: <4910@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 89 21:45:16 GMT
References: <4208@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis)
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In article <4208@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> kinstrey@wsqtba.crd.ge.com (M. A. Kinstrey) writes:
>I have noticed, however, that every night between
>11:35pm and 11:45pm (Usually 11:35pm) the bell
>weakly rings twice. "Tink... Tink". Every night
>
>The weak ring suggests to me that the pulse is lower than
>phones should ring at, but since my ringer is so close
>to the bell, a lower pulse sets it off.

  The same thing happens here (Seattle, Wa., for those who can't see
the header =8) ) at about 12:00-1:00 at night, every night. (I have
one of those hyper-cheap phones hanging off of my modem line, and
if I'm awake and offline at that time, the over-sensitive ringer
will make a few sickly beeps ... this is a very sensitive ringer:
it rings from pulse dialing, even ... )
  I don't have any idea what it's caused by, though...

     --- phelliax

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