On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Wesley Parish <[email protected]>wrote:
> Telecom has a problem with my landline. > > To wit: whenever it rains or the temperature drops precipately, it cuts out > the connection from me to them. Last Wednesday, for example, when I > arrived > home from town and picked up the receiver, I got no dial tone. > > However, when I ring 125 directly, it connects immediately and dial-tone is > there. > > And when I get around to contacting them - during the day, usually when > it's > dry - they cannot reproduce the problem. > > A friend in town suggests that it's either the line itself open like a > sieve, > or the local junction box is leaking. > > Does anyone have any ideas why Telecom cannot reproduce the problem - apart > from careful maintenance of their own lines and non-maintenance of > everybody > else's? I'm getting sick of having the weather provide me with the > switchboard-in-the-sky to /dev/null/. > > Wesley Parish > -- Yep, had that problem a few times, usually about every 18 months. Will probably be the phone line wall socket box. You might find that it will be very damp inside and verdigris and some crystaline stuff has coated all the bare brass bits and contacts. The verdigris will have worked itself into the screw threads and joints thereby stopping contact. The dampness is caused by cool air coming up through the wall cavity and condensing on the wire coatings and the resultant water migrates along the wires and into the socket box.where electolisis does it's thing. Fixed my problem by reinstalling the socket box a few inches away from the wire hole. Now no moisture enters the box.
