I am reminded of the old 2 party telephone service in Los Angeles. When it was going away 1/2 of the those subs needed to have their telephones rewired. This was done without cost to the customer. Some customers held out until they were told that their service would stop. We had one customer who didn't care. We had many trips out to the house to ask for entry to rewire. They were all denied. Finally, I was sent out to disconnect their service drop to temporarily stop their service. The next day a trouble report came in for no dial tone. I went out to the house, opened the phone, rewired it, went up the telephone pole and hooked the service drop back up. Customer was happy to get dial tone back. That was that last party line in LA....
Yes, it was.... for the uninitiated
, ringing current went from one of the two wires to ground for 1st party and from the other wire to ground for the 2nd party. That way your phone only rang when someone was calling you. The other phone on the 2 party line didn't ring.
Kind of like the 46-49 MHz cordless phones back in the 80's and 90's. You could get a lot of good entertainment on a scanner back in those days. Also, back in the day, the 800 MHz AMPS cellular phones back before everything went digital.
Yes, it was.... for the uninitiated
The tip side phones were wired differently than the ring side phones. It was the ringers that were wired differently. And no, you never, ever, wired anything backward. Ring, Red, Ridge, Right was the credo, always.
As of this morning (five weeks after the deadline in the thread title) my 501 will only work for channels from the 118 satellite, and will not take a guide download. Oh well, I have a ViP211 ready to replace it. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
