One evening last year Joseph Jaarus, 19, of Grand Rapids dialed local radio station WLAV to ask that Disk Jockey Tom Quain play his favorite number, I Need You. As usual, the line was busy. But just ...

SANTA MARIA 77 Police investigating the death of a Santa Maria woman by a Lompoc man who later shot himself in front of police believe the incident may have been spurred by a busy telephone line.

Many ‘busy’ indicators for use in telephone systems present undesirable loading of the telephone line. Some circuits are very simple indeed to the extent of only loading the line when it is not in use ...