Telephone-question...

[Dala Dahlgren]

Is there any way to automatically find which number your phone is connected
to?

In other words, is it possible to make an electronic "gadget" which will be
able to find your phone number if you connect it to your phone-plug?

 

[Luhan]

Is there any way to automatically find which number your phone is connected
to?

In other words, is it possible to make an electronic "gadget" which will be
able to find your phone number if you connect it to your phone-plug?

Short answer, no.

In most places, there is a special number you call and a voice response
reads your phone number to you. Another number, or just dialing your
own number, does a 'ringback' to your phone.

Any phone phreaks around?

Luhan

 

[John Larkin]

Is there any way to automatically find which number your phone is connected
to?

In other words, is it possible to make an electronic "gadget" which will be
able to find your phone number if you connect it to your phone-plug?

You could call someone who has Caller ID.

John

 

[Richard Henry]

You could call someone who has Caller ID.

Or call your cell phone.

 

[Phil Hobbs]

Just had to withdraw an approved order for a factory-reconditioned Tek TDS
7704B digital scope, due to, *ahem*, organizational issues. It may be a
Windows machine, but it's pretty nice otherwise, and the price was within my
(now vanished) budget of $50k.

One thing I notice is that at present the fastest Agilent scopes have better
specs than the Tek ones--especially about 10 dB lower jitter, 0.5 ps vs 1.5
ps, wider offset range, lower noise--though they're significantly more
expensive per gigahertz.

We were discussing the current apparent goodness of the HP (sorry,
Flat--excuse me, Agilent) scopes the other day...does anybody have hands-on
experience with the fastest Agilent scopes?

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

 

[Tim Auton]

Or call your cell phone.

Surely that /is/ calling someone with Caller ID.


Tim

 

[Don Lancaster]

Just had to withdraw an approved order for a factory-reconditioned Tek
TDS 7704B digital scope, due to, *ahem*, organizational issues. It may
be a Windows machine, but it's pretty nice otherwise, and the price was
within my (now vanished) budget of $50k.

One thing I notice is that at present the fastest Agilent scopes have
better specs than the Tek ones--especially about 10 dB lower jitter, 0.5
ps vs 1.5 ps, wider offset range, lower noise--though they're
significantly more expensive per gigahertz.

We were discussing the current apparent goodness of the HP (sorry,
Flat--excuse me, Agilent) scopes the other day...does anybody have
hands-on experience with the fastest Agilent scopes?

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

Try the HP 130-C.

It was the last decent oscilloscope HP ever built.
Steadily downhill from there.



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[John Larkin]

Surely that /is/ calling someone with Caller ID.

I was too modest to point that out.

John

 

[Dala Dahlgren]

You could call someone who has Caller ID.

Of course, but what I was wondering was if it is possible to retreive the
phone-number automatically, ie. without relying on another person to give
you this information. In other words, is there any available service built
into the phone-network which lets you look up your own phone number?

According to Luhan this is not possible, so I guess that answers my
question...

 

[John Larkin]

Of course, but what I was wondering was if it is possible to retreive the
phone-number automatically, ie. without relying on another person to give
you this information. In other words, is there any available service built
into the phone-network which lets you look up your own phone number?

According to Luhan this is not possible, so I guess that answers my
question...

There is. Phone service techs know a whole set of magic numbers that
you dial to do stuff like this. I bet they're on the web somewhere.

John

 

[Richard Henry]

Surely that /is/ calling someone with Caller ID.

I had a long-winded reply about how I had had a phone installed in a new
house and the technician left without telling me what the number is, so I
just called my cellphone to get the number, then called back from the cell
phone to confirm it, and how it was a free transaction because I didn't
answer either call, and how I was thinking the whole time that I didn't
really need the land line any more, but that our guests might, so we went
ahead and installed it (I'm still not decided whether to discuss the fact
that the new service is "wired" with fiber optic cable to the transition
box, so we could have 4 line, cable tv and broadband internet even though we
only want a single POTS line and we already have a separate cable
tv/internet service connected, and I certainly wouldn't go into how the
phone died after about a week (the technician hooked up the power supply
wrong and the battery eventually gave out)) but it was too hot to type that
much so I just shortened it down to the essential meat.

 

[Don Bowey]

Of course, but what I was wondering was if it is possible to retreive the
phone-number automatically, ie. without relying on another person to give
you this information. In other words, is there any available service built
into the phone-network which lets you look up your own phone number?

According to Luhan this is not possible, so I guess that answers my
question...

Re-read the Luhan response. You do not understand it yet.

 

[Simone Merrett]

In Australia, ( and perhaps other parts of world), you can use the info
here..
http://www.accesscomms.com.au/testnumb.htm

Or for other phone info,
http://www.accesscomms.com.au/reference_telephone.htm

This info is probably only for voice-reply, but being an automated response,
it may be easy enough to decode the voice using some simple, but clever SW /
Firmware & analog sampling/demodulation method.

David Merrett

 

[Martin Riddle]

Short answer, no.

In most places, there is a special number you call and a voice response
reads your phone number to you. Another number, or just dialing your
own number, does a 'ringback' to your phone.

Any phone phreaks around?

Luhan

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