Again, any help in figuring this out would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.



Go to a working phone. Dial 611 or 511. In most locales, you'll hear a
computerized voice telling you the phone number of the line you're connected
to. Problem solved.


You should read the original post more carefully. S/he said that the
972 business line was removed and there now is only one line in the
house.

To the original poster - Your first goal is to make sure that you have
dial tone on your existing phone available on two wires at each phone
jack location.

If you can buy, borrow or beg for the use of a telephone lineman's
headset (basically a phone with clip-on wires), it will make the job
much easier.

If this is not available, you can take a spare phone and plug it into
what is called an RJ-11 phone jack (available from companies like
Radio Shack, Jameco Electronics, or MCM in One Electronics) and
connect two properly stripped wires to the RED and GREEN marked
terminal screws. At your main house junction block you should hear
dial tone when this phone is off the hook and the jack wires are
connected to either the two nuts on the left (most likely) or the two
nuts on the right.

Now the trick is to make sure that every jack in your house is
connected to these two (working dial tone) terminals. You are sort
of on your own here as we can't tell how your house is wired.

Once you have a working phone line with dial tone at each outlet, you
need to connect the equivalent of the RED and GREEN wires for the jack
(the color standard for one line or line# 1) to the wires that give
you the working phone line.

Your old jacks look like computer RJ-45 connectors, which work for
phones but they are overkill. You may wish to purchase some extra
RJ-11 jacks and replace them. The latter is designed specifically for
one line telephones. (For nit-pickers, I know that RJ-11 refers to a
standard, not the jack, but I am using the designation that is almost
100% universal in common usage).

Beachcomber