[BC] Old 2500 WE Telephone...

[Burt I. Weiner]

I have an old 2500 that I use for testing for telephone line 
interference.  It's quite reliable and is completely powered by the 
C.O. and works fine during power outages.  Yes, I do have some of the 
latest and greatest cordless phones and a cell phone.  POTS is by far 
the most reliable.

Burt

At 08:38 PM 6/3/2006, you wrote:
>From: Charles Ring W3NU <charlesr at infonline.net>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Sta-Level
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>Alan Kline wrote:
> > But that's not answering the question.  Why does it inspire such hostility
> > if someone else suggests that something other than the latest, greatest
> > whiz-bang tech will serve their purpose?
> >
> > I must be way out of my mind in your view, because I believe that my
> > needs for home phone service are well-met by Western Electric 
> phones plugged
> > into a POTS line.  That doesn't mean that I don't use new tech where it's
> > appropriate, but in this case, IMHO, older is better.
> >
> >
>
>Another variation on this attitude: a while ago I got Vonage VOIP
>service at home (yes I do use new things) but wanted to use a W.E. 2500
>phone on it. The manual said in more than one place "any standard
>touchtone phone" and in the specs "R.E.N. up to 5.0". The 2500 is THE
>standard touchtone phone and 5.0 says it could ring FIVE of them.
>Instead when the line rang the phone's ringer only weakly tapped. Same
>phone worked great on a standard line. I complained to/ /Vonage and got
>told something like well of course you have to use a phone with a modern
>electronic ringer, as if that was a given, despite the manual saying
>several times it isn't so. After several frustrating email exchanges I
>asked to be turned over to someone who has real knowledge of how wired
>telephones work. That earned me a "case closed" email and further emails
>from me were ignored. I had earned a label of cranky old man to be
>ignored, I guess. Months later I was startled by that phone ringing
>loudly. Seems they had done an unannounced firmware upgrade which made
>it work as the manual said it should. It's been fine since.
>
>If it's been around a while, it has to be junk
>
>If a person has been around a while, he has to be behind the times and
>is to be disregarded except as the butt of jokes.
>
>The errors of the past are to be exaggerated but not learned from, the
>successes of the past are to be forgotten and never built upon, and the
>dignity earned by the past is to be laughed out of existence.
>
>It worked well for Chairman Mao in the Cultural Revolution.

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