On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:08:24 -0400 meirman
wrote:

Is soldering and taping good enough for an outdoor phone line repair?

If you do a good solder joint, that's the best connection possible.
The problem that remains is whether you can keep water out of the
connections. A bit of moisture in there can make a high resistance
short between the conductors and lead to noise on the line and slow
down your dial-up connection.

These frequencies are much too slow to have to worry about a good
impedance match at the splice. Whatever the phone company would do
would be much worse.

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Jim Adney
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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