ap373@cleveland.freenet.edu (Pete J. Bowden) (02/06/91)
I happen to have a multitude (14) of lines in my residence which happen to be on a GTE GTD-5 switch and experienced the same trouble which Singer mentioned, plus an added touch. Occasionally when people called my voice line they would hear me garbled. I called my house once when this intermittent condition was occurring and the best way to explain it was that the person on my phone sounded like Mickey mouse. I had similar results with GTE, with them turning around and usually not calling me to tell me that it had been "cleared" even though the problem persisted. After a while the phone repair people were getting "annoyed" with me -- I would use much stronger words for how I felt the phone company was treating me. The repair person sent someone out to my house and said it was INSIDE my house and that if I called in again they would charge me some outrageous hourly rate to repair it. I said it was similar to his problem so let me get back to that. In addition to me sounding like Mickey mouse to my callers I would occasionally pick up the phone and be unable to break dialtone. I found out, however, that I could dial-pulse -- so I switched the phone over to pulse and called my other line and low and behold I sounded like Mickey coming out the one end. Now then, when confronted with this obnoxious repair person saying he was going to charge me I kept picking up the line until I could not break dialtone and I dialed his supervisor direct. He heard me as Mickey mouse and realized it was a real problem. A friend of mine installs GTD-5's and told me that it is the line card which was bad -- so I told them to replace the line card when they finally listened to me the problem went away.
rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (02/10/91)
In article <16717@accuvax.nwu.edu>, ap373@cleveland.freenet.edu (Pete J. Bowden) writes: > ... I called my house once when this intermittent condition was > occurring and the best way to explain it was that the person on my > phone sounded like Mickey mouse. I'm familiar with the Donald Duck effect, which is usually caused by a carrier system (ssb) demodulator being off-frequency. But what kind of fault could cause a Mickey Mouse effect?