HI Tommy,
Thanks to your EXCELLENT help it is now dialing out without the 9.level request.
Unfortunately I redid this MANY times before it got it..
Wanna hear a story?
Naturally I wasn't at the Fax machine and was using one of my TS21's in the equipment room. Probably the same Butt set as most of us old phoney's like me use.
I kept having different results of failure, so I kept trying slight variations and returning to exactly what you sent.
About this point I figured out that I may have been testing it wrong.
The other systems I've worked on you could test for Inside or outside Dial-tone by going ROH and dialing 9 to see where you landed.
It finally occurred to me that it isn't the ROH state like a Panasonic or Partner, but the ARS of the IPOFFICE that was accepting ANY digit and would be passing a 9 that would still give me an outside trunk.
DAMNIT JANET! It did just what I told it to, expecting a different result. DUH!
After a while, it became more convenient to hardwire an old 2500 set to the 66 block and suddenly began having success!.
Seriously Tommy, how often have you had a working Butt set spontaneously begin mutilating digits?
With the dial-pad on back, I couldn't hear the squeaky DTMF to know this though.
Naturally it HAD to be the 1 as all calls from this CO need to start with it to get out.
You may have seen here before that I frequently have unusually bad luck and probably should have been hired to a BETA TESTING team
I am presently trying to write a book of short stories about how much fun I have adapting to life throwing me mostly curveballs and Lemons.
It's entitled:
"NO SHIT.......
THERE I WAS!"Thank you so much for the help!