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Ah! It works - thanks for the help. Not bad weather for January in London.

Welcome back to England Hutch! In which part of London are you staying?


Agree with you there. The Continental use of a flat, monotone for ringing is rather dull, and the British/Commonwealth/Irish/American modulated rings sound better to me. (Due apologies to our European members -- Maybe it's just what you grow up with!)

Kensington on business - and in a couple of days, Lancashire with pleasure. Very shortly back to NA.

Rapidly getting back to BS1363 and my adaptor putting 240V across a NEMA 5-15.

Hong Kong-- RJ System (plugs and sockets) is gradually replacing the BT System
New RJ45 socket in my home:


[This message has been edited by Cn_HK (edited 10-06-2005).]

To my ear Austria ctually seems to use a mix of flat and modulated tones. I prefer the modulated ones (or maybe just the modulation frequencies vary since even the flat one sound a lot better than the German flat tones to my ear). The new, extremely modulated ones sound awful though. I'll try to record an example some time.