Unusual Examples of the Glitch
At the top of this post I enclose two more MP3s with examples of the glitch. Some of you might like to check them out because they stand out from the many dozens of same-sounding recordings I've made. Unlike the others, these two samples feature not only the usual clicks, but also some extra sounds at the beginning.
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- An example from Jan. 16, 2014 - with speech:
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www.hidrive.strato.com/l ··· IcUrt3Gm- An example from March 4, 2014 - with off-hook warning tone:
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www.hidrive.strato.com/l ··· lEUrtabRThe example from Jan. 16th begins with a brief snippet of speech. Although the male voice is truncated, it's fairly easy to make out what it's saying (you might have to replay the file a few times, though). The recording from March 4th, on the other hand, begins with a brief electronic beep. This tone too is easily recognizable: it's a single burst of the off-hook warning tone that the line (the CO) puts out when the phone has been left off-hook too long, after the other party had already hung up. (I believe this tone is sometimes also used to indicate that a call is being transferred to another party.)
This thread is slowly getting old (and the issue is more of a curiosity than anything serious -- at least so far), but I'm wondering if anyone here knows if these additional sounds I've described (and enclosed) are completely consistent with the faulty-test-head theory. The example with the voice is especially puzzling to me. Doesn't it, by definition, indicate some sort of momentary crosstalk-type phenomenon? (To be clear, the snippet of speech was suddenly "injected" on the line while the line was idle, during the usual 5:48 PM time slot.)
Among the more than 70 instances of the glitch I've captured, there is only one recording featuring a voice, and only 2 samples with the off-hook warning beep.
Don't worry, I'm pretty much done with this thread. At this point I can't think of any other info pertaining to this topic that's worth mentioning...