Ok, guys, thanks for humoring me. I came to the same conclusions, but 
I've got an ME and a IT guy asking me these questions.

Im just a lowly embedded uC programmer...........

Mark

Brad Stockdale wrote:
> No... I've seen some strange things. But never a wifi router dialing 911 over 
> a phone line that its not even connected it. Three times in a day and a 
> half...
>
> How about this idea: Someone is playing a practical joke and is opening up 
> your NID outside the location and connecting a phone in and dialing 911...? 
> That's a lot more probable than a wifi router dialing 911.
>
> Brad
>
>
> On Thursday 16 August 2007 13:39, Mark E. Skeels wrote:
>
>   
>> Actually, I was thinking this:
>>
>>
>> There's a WiFi repeater in close proximity to the phone lines. Of
>> course, it also has a small wall-wart type switching power supply.
>>
>> I was wondering how possible it might be that some kind of interference
>> from the repeater or it's power supply might be taking the line off hook
>> externally, then somehow pulse-dialing 911.
>>
>> That seems to me almost statistically impossible, let alone to do it 3
>> times in a 36 hr period. But if the switcher pulsed regularly at the
>> right frequency...?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Robert Rolf wrote:
>>     
>>> Solenoid. R/C servo or DC motor with a small lever to press/release the
>>> hookswitch. Do you need to put it back on-hook when you are done?
>>>
>>> Mark E. Skeels wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Can you guys think of any way a phone line could be induced to go off
>>>> hook via a stimulus external to the phone line (not electrically
>>>> connected?
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>         
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