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To: 1_Rain_Drop
Should also mention that, depending on what kind of phone you have and what kind of network it was connected to, you may have work to do to get it to ring.

Small phone companies in rural areas used tricky ringers to get phones to work on party lines (so that they could ring just one phone on the line). Those ringers usually won't work on a modern phone system.

Sometimes it's just moving a wire from one terminal to another; sometimes you have to find a plain-jane ("straight-line") replacement ringer.

114 posted on 03/30/2021 12:10:58 PM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: Campion

Thank you for the information!!

I’ll be going back this week and will grab the phones.
I do have a landline connection so there’s a half-hope they may work.
This is going to be fun!


117 posted on 03/31/2021 9:05:34 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)
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