Thread: Phone is back!

Now have my landline back. Telstra tried to get here twice last week, and finally managed to get here this morning. After showing him where the line ran on a map, he set off to follow it back from the house.

Five minutes later, I get a call - "I'm bogged". He was too. After assessing the situation we decided to use his winch, and he managed to get out with my directions. Then he drove down the hill a bit to a safe dry spot, and loaded him and his test gear into the 2a (since it weighs about half what his outfit does) and I drove him to the next junction box. He was afraid the issue was where the cable crossed the creek (not close to the track), but in fact it only took him a few minutes to find the problem - a loading coil that was corroded inside its encapsulation at that junction. There was a spare available, as I had had three lines at one stage, so he hooked it up, said it worked, and we came back to the house and confirmed it actually did still work.

But it wasted most of the morning, with me trying to get the 2a checked over and serviced for a pink slip.

Yes, we are on the wrong side of the hill behind the house for mobile. You can get reception here and there, but it is very unreliable. The landline has generally been far more reliable than the mobile for the last 27 years. And we need to have a reliable voice line for trouble shooting the satellite internet.