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North and ITT both used frequency ringing and up to 10 parties on a line. Still have some "Golden Tone" ringers by ITT somewhere.....
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And there were 2 types of frequency ringing. Harmonic and decimonic. Decimonic was (I think) 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 htz. Harmonic was 15, 30, 45, and 60. (Again, I think) And you could get really crazy, or so I was told. Use decimonic with Ringing tip to ring, tip to ground and ring to ground. (But isn't tip supposed to be ground?) That would be, supposedly, 18 parties! Altho the current drain would be huge, because even the wrong frequency bells would absorb some power.
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John, technically all frequency ringers were considered "harmonic"....and, yes, depending on the spacing of the frequencies there were different names. Try 20, 30, 40, 50, and 66 1/3 for the fun of it....and with a positive ground C O it rang to ground with no problem....10 parties. And don't forget the magneto lines....1/2 price for one side ground to talk over, full price for a full copper pair.  Ask SOB (Sweet Old Bill) about leaving the barbed wire gate open and the party line going dead. :rofl:
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Wouldn't life be made simpler if the phones had bandpass filters?
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Actually our cottage is still on a 4-party line, with ours the only one left on it. Therefore we have a "private" line for 1/2 the price. BTW, a faster dial-up speed that I can get in the the "city" by far on any of my private lines.
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Originally posted by metelcom:
When I was young we had a party line and used regular phones no special ringer. Each person had their own ring sequence ours was 2 long and a short the next door neighbors was 4 short rings. The bad part was you heard every ring the good part was if you were at the neighbors house you could answer your own ring. Merritt - You might have been working off a manual (cord) board. I remember in the '50s and the early '60s up in the Catskills (the Hebrew Himalayas) there were umpteen-party lines - all working off a manual CO. You picked up the phone and got "Hello Central". Madge or whatever her name was had a list of how many longs and shorts and in what order to ring your phone. Sam
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"..........(the Hebrew Himalayas)"
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I've never heard the Catskills called that but it certainly makes sense  Sam, you are too funny!
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Way, way, way off the thread....
Sam, is that the Poke-in-the-Nose Mountains????? That is what I heard the 'Joas-ey boyus call it....
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Ken -
The Poconos are in PA. The Hebrew Himalayas (Remember the movie "Dirty Dancing") are in upstate NY (Sullivan County) about 2-3 hours from NYC.
Before there was Air Conditioning and during the years of "Restricted" hotels in the North East, the Catskills were very popular with downstate folk. Too much food and lots of entertainment. A lot of top comedians got their starts there.
Sorry for being off thread. I still think it was a manual board.
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