Conference tekvax::electro_hobby

    The basenote sounds roughly like a glitch I've been experiencing.  I
    purchased a Bell South cordless phone (25 channels, 10 presets) last
    fall and like it a lot -- great sound, adequate range, a pleasure not
    to race down the hall to answer the phone, etc.  But there has been an
    occasional glitch that has come with it:  every so often (usually
    between midnight and 2am) the phone will ring ONCE - not a "chirp" or
    a "ring-ring", just ONE normal ring.  The first couple times it
    happened I pressed the ON switch and got only a dial tone; after a
    while I learned to wait for a second ring before answering.
    
    Is there any way of comfirming just what is happening here?  This has
    happened maybe a dozen times since I got the phone, though it hasn't
    given me the "single-late-night-ring" for a few weeks now -- I'm
    starting to get a bit paranoid 'cause it hasn't ;^)
    
    						--Eric--

 After go arounds with the phone company and law enforcement about my
 mid-night to 2 AM single rings, I got mine fixed.

 This is the time period that the phone company uses to test their 
 circuits.  They apply a voltage that is theoretically low enough
 to test the ringer, but to NOT ring the phone.  Some of the new high
 tech phones are much too sensitive and do ring.

 A heart to heart chat with the teleco engineers ended the problem
 for a few months, and then it started again.  A heart to heart 
 chat with the telco engineering manager seems to have ended the
 problem for good....or at least 3+ years.

 In fairness to the telco, my street is very long and has old wires,
 the signal loss probably demanded the higher voltage.  Engineering
 also said that the line should not have been tested as frequently as
 it was getting tested.

 Bruce

 

    Guess I shouldn't tempt fate....
    
    The damn phone gave a 1:45am ring two nights ago, after a couple weeks
    of no glitches.  I suppose it heard that I made a complaint in NOTES
    and decided to speak up :^|.... still, this is only a minor annoyance
    'cause I'm usually too zonked to hear the phone ;^)
    
    Re. .25 thanx for the explanation! I suspect that my phone lines are
    pretty old too, since I live in a rural area.
    
    						--Eric--