On Feb 29, 6:24 pm, Jim Redelfs wrote:
In article
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digger odell wrote:

Any suggestions?

Connect a KNOWN GOOD phone to the base cord that is (was?) feeding the
cordless base station. It's quite possible that the cord is defective. Good
luck.
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JR

No project too small
All projects too big

In my OP, I did indicate that this step was covered ...

continuously (on BOTH phones) but no dial tone. So I replaced the
battery on ONE phone; did the reset thing; still no dial tone. (using
a phone line that tests OK on other phones)

On the other hand, I neglected to mention that I ALSO used a pencil
eraser on the contact points, as recommended by V-Tech. What finally
did work was the step reported in my above posting (#5).