On Wed, 4 May 2016 06:56:19 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 8:38:27 AM UTC-4, Micky wrote:
On Wed, 04 May 2016 07:51:16 -0500, legg wrote:

On Tue, 03 May 2016 23:06:33 -0400, Micky
wrote:


I live in Md. and have Verizon copper for phone and DSL. The phone I
use mostly and for these incidents is hard-wired, though fwliw the
base of that phone is also the connection for cordless phones that are
available to it, but none have been in use during this problem: Lately
there have been seemingly random interruptions in my ability to hear,
though others can always hear me.


I am going to feed back what I understood from your description of the problem.

a) You have a Uniden (Chinese) hard-wired all the way phone that goes dumb sometimes - does not speak to the other end.
b) This is the only phone in your dwelling that displays this problem.

Now that you mention it, I spend almost all my time on this phone, and
I will start keeping a cordless phone next to it, so when this one
goes half-dead, I can see if the cordless works.

I would think they share very few parts, that the wireless is as
separate from the wired as a second wired phone would be.

And I'm betting it won't affect the wireless because I think the only
part the wireless and wired share is the phone jack and maybe the
internal wires to it.

c) You have done the obvious - checked the connections, wiggled the jacks and so forth. No help.
These cheap Chinese phones are all-on-a-chip devices, acutely sensitive to any sort of spike on the line and also age out with startling regularity.

Hmmm. We'll see how long it takes until it happens again. (on the
phone for an hour yesterday with no problems)

If no other phone in the house displays this problem, replace the Uniden.

I do have another compatible base station with a wireless phone
instead of wired. It's around here someplace, in the original box, so
it might be possible to find it. It was cheaper to buy two two-phone
sets than an phone and 2 other wiresless extensions. Before ebay
stops selling them, I should buy one or two more extensions for when
mine break. Maybe I'll buy another whole set with a wired base
station instead. (I've had the phones 4 - 6 or more years and this
is the first problem.)

Thansk. (It's near Gdansk.)

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA