Jim Adney wrote:
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.

Hi Jim...

Betcha a dollar against a stale donut that you can't find
any phone company anywhere that wouldn't replace the entire
cable intact from their drop to the service entrance block
inside the house.

Betcha a million against the same donut that they wouldn't
leave an inch of it lying exposed on the ground. Just
imagine their liability if it was soaked, or broken, when
the need arose for an ambulance, cop, or fire truck!

Not to mention the mailman tripping on it and suing a la
"McDonalds too hot coffee" kinda thing.

It is, after all, their cable, not the OP's.

Take care.

Ken