Party lines of the telephone kind. Part 1
July 10, 2017
An old post from my blog. Written in 2009.
About 1983 we escaped Kilcowera for a brief trip to Brisbane – first time away since marrying in 1980. Yeehah!!! I remember being in some business house and the salesperson asked for my phone number, unthinkingly I replied “ Thargomindah 22R” I got a very blank look and then the question “ How do you dial that” Good question. Seeing as I hadn’t been to a city since marrying I didn’t know. When we were in a local town we used a telecard to make a call. Seems you had to ring an operator and they would put the caller through to the Thargomindah phone exchange operator who would then ring the station with their own distinctive call. Our number was 22R – the r was a short, long, short ring, based on Morse code.
It had taken me a long time…
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