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- Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
- Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 1992 15:31:24 CET
- From: <RFLOOD@ESOC.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92323.153124RFLOOD@ESOC.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Making Your Telephone a Feephone
- Lines: 11
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- 'Everyone' in England a few years ago knew of someone who had converted
- his telephone so that no charge pulses were passed back to the person
- who originated the call.....supposedly, the conversion consisted of
- wiring a capacitor & resistor in the phone line, so that the incoming
- charge pulses were blocked, and the exchange electronics 'saw' a phone
- where the handset had been replaced, whereas sufficient dc still flowed
- thru the phone to keep the circuit open. Was there any truth in these
- rumours ? I never met anyone who had actually done it, but there was
- always some guy three or four acquaintances across reputed to use it !
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- RaF
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