better yet, just get a line restrictor from Radio Shack, part number
43-445 for $9.99 each. prevents extension from picking up. put one on
each telephone line, and neither can interfere with the other,
automatically switches phone #2 out when phone #1 picks up.  can use as
many as you like if you have 4 phones, get 4 devices, one for each
line/telephone or just use a fax switch. Then the calling party decides
who will answer.

Lawrence Lile wrote:
>
> Years ago small businesses could buy a two line switch pretty reasonably at
> Radio Shark.  Now they just give me a dumb look.
>
> My father-in-law has a situation where he would like a system to answer his
> phone:  "Press 1 if you want Joe, Press 2 if you want Jim"  the phone siganl
> would end up in two places, either at his renter's house, or his cabin right
> out back which he stays in all summer.  Right now, he jsut has a phone line
> to both, resulting in the inconvenience that everyone tries to answer
> everyone else's calls.
>
> Is there anything like this out there?
>
> --Lawrence
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