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Second Phone Line won't hang up
Wow! The switching of the polarity seems to have done it! Yay! I read up on diodes and bridge rectifiers at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_bridge) and other places online, and now I think I get it. The bridge rectifiers allow items to work with either polarity, so in my case... -
Second Phone Line won't hang up
Thanks again! Re-terminating? Ah, that must mean dis- and re-connecting the wires to the terminals in the jacks -- what I was unprofessionally referring to as the little metal parts -- but not necessarily switching the polarity, is that right? Yes, this all involves one telephone number, one... -
Second Phone Line won't hang up
Thank you so very much for your responses, folks. I do appreciate it. This is a nice forum! I had checked the jack when this trouble began, and, though the ouside was fairly dusty and I wondered if that caused some trouble so I tried to clean it out, everything inside looked new and shiny and... -
Second Phone Line won't hang up
P.S. I only have one telephone line, not two lines like the earlier poster. -
Second Phone Line won't hang up
I've recently been experiencing a problem similar to what is described in this old thread. I was on a call, getting what sounded like AM radio interference. The other party did not hear this. I had been on the line earlier both for a few telephone calls and using my modem, with no trouble...
