Subj : Dead Phone LIne.
To   : Jay Emrie
From : Ken Weitzel
Date : Sun Nov 28 2004 08:29 pm



JE>According to my brother, who used to work for SWBT (as it was then known)
  >if a caller gets a busy signal (WHICH THEY DID) there is a short between
  >the red and green in the house phone wiring; if the caller got ring then
  >there is an open in the house wiring.


Hi...

I imagine that both you and your brother are referring
to 'short' in the simplest of terms.  But just to make
double sure, it's not a short 'short' :)

Were it really shorted, you couldn't use it :)

It's just a very, very tiny load across the line.

Ken
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