From: floyd@tanana.polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom.tech
Subject: Re: 1000 Hz test tone
Date: 4 Jun 1998 17:43:55 GMT

Rich Cullen  <rich@cullenmed.com> wrote:
>How can I get the number to call to bring up a 1000 Hz tone to test the
>audio level on my lines.
>
>Ameritech won't give it to me.
>
>I take care of the computer and phone systems for my company.  I have
>four branch offices in Ameritech territory (although I'm using a CLEC)
>and one in GTE.

Make it worth their while to provide you with the number...
call them up on a regular basis and request assistance for
routine maintenance: doing loss measurements on each and every
individual line, manually.  When they complain, tell them it
isn't _your_ idea, it's just "company policy".  If they don't
have the time in the morning, call them again that afternoon.
If they can't do it today, call them tomorrow.

It won't take long before they give you the number for their
milliwatt.  Ask for a quiet term number too.  Ask if they have a
loop back (T108/T109) test pair too.

Heh heh, be sure to say thank you in a nice tone of voice!

  Floyd


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Floyd L. Davidson                                floyd@ptialaska.net
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

From: floyd@tanana.polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom.tech
Subject: Re: 1000 Hz test tone
Date: 9 Jun 1998 13:06:45 GMT

In article <357D2CC7.1BAD@cullenmed.com>,
Rich Cullen  <rich@cullenmed.com> wrote:
>Well, I tried XXX-0020 on my exchange and got someone out of bed.
>
>I guess they didn't carry the number over on the switch that serves me.
>
>Rich
>
>Anton Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Greetings Rich,
>>         The test number is XXX-0020.  This is in the old switches and sometimes
>> is carried forth as a test number in the new switches if the number was
>> in use in the old switches.  You can try all the prefixes to see if you
>> can find one that works.  I just
>> moved and tried it in the switch where I moved and it does work on my
>> phones.

There is no standard for a dial-up milliwatt number.  One large
company happens to commonly use the xxx-0020 number.  Some
telco's use a 99xx number.  Another common number is 1102 (the
1000 series being the base, and the test number being the last
three digits, so 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, etc are all valid
test numbers).

There are some totally off the wall random numbers used too.  And
the worst case that I know of is a small switch that was once
programmed to use xxx-0C02 (which can't be dialed with a standard
telephone DTMF 3x4 pad).

The idea that giving out the T102 test number will lead to abuse,
or even to excessive calls is probably just paranoia.  Only very
small switches have only a single milliwatt device, and larger
switches will have many.  Of course the device gets used for
more than just the dialup access too.

  Floyd

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Floyd L. Davidson                                floyd@ptialaska.net
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

From: floyd@tanana.polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom.tech
Subject: Re: 1000 Hz test tone
Date: 10 Jun 1998 04:42:49 GMT

In article <MPG.fe7c24dbf46282f9897f3@news.ultranet.com>,
Tony Pelliccio <nospam.tonypo@nospam.ultranet.com> wrote:
>In article <6ljc15$ojb@enews1.newsguy.com>, floyd@tanana.polarnet.com
>says...
>
>> There are some totally off the wall random numbers used too.  And
>> the worst case that I know of is a small switch that was once
>> programmed to use xxx-0C02 (which can't be dialed with a standard
>> telephone DTMF 3x4 pad).
>
>Ah.. but many things can and do generate the A,B,C,D tones. It's fairly
>easy to modify a standard WECO TT pad to open up the fourth column and
>enable A,B,C,D using a toggle switch and the third column.

Make a kluge modification to every tel set required to dial up
a milliwatt?  :-)

That demonstrates exactly what makes that a "worst case".

  Floyd


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Floyd L. Davidson                                floyd@ptialaska.net
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)