How to Make Skype Play Nicely with Google Voice. Whitson Gordon. 1/24/12 7:30pm. (or Skype > Preferences if you're on a Mac). Under Calls, go to Call Forwarding and check the 'Forward my calls. Then log into Google Voice. Click on Settings > Phones - Uncheck all phones - Check Google Chat - Log out of gmail ( Or turn off chat at the bottom of the gmail page) Add. I have a couple of these and I just connect a standard cordless phone to the RJ11 and I have a free landline anywhere in the house. This is plug and play.
It may work just as is. Certainly likely to be able to answer an incoming call; o if it is in working condition at all. Many telephone lines, at least those from regular 'line' telcos. Will still accept the pulses from the rotary dial.
We have such a dial equipped phone in our hallway and it works just fine, although we tend to use a cordless phone because of ease of use and ease of pushing buttons and redialling etc. But when there is the occasional power outage with traditional telephone systems, often equipped with 24 hour battery back-up, nothing works better than a plain old fashioned rotary phone. If you want to test it before hooking up connect a 9 volt battery to the two wires (often red and green) to see if you hear a click in the earpiece, also try blowing or talking into the microphone part and see if you hear something; it's called side-tone (i.e. You should be able to hear yourself slightly.
(Side tone sometimes is called 'Spitch') if so the phone may work. However depending on the original quality of the phone (Bell system standard/Western Elctric/ AE Co. Chicago, for example, whether it is in good condition and its model you may or may not get good quality voice transmission, both ways. Although judging by some of the cheap junk phones that have been sold and in some cases given away an older standard rotary phone that meets international standards may be better! I have pre-1950s phones that work just fine.
Special Ed 10/8/2008, 9:13 น. Wrote in message news:faa99c66-f2b0-453a-a2b3-06ed8c0a8b29@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com. I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do?? To test if it works, remove cover from wall jack, touch red and green wires from phone to same colors on jack. Listen for dial tone.
If you get one, so far so good. Next screw the red and green wires from the phone to the jack and test for outgoing and incoming phone calls. If it works, you can just leave it that way- or attach an RJ11 plug to the phone so you can use it an any jack. Kurt Ullman 10/8/2008, 9:25 น. On Aug 10, 2:25 pm, Kurt Ullman wrote: In article'Special Ed' wrote: wrote in message news:faa99c66-f2b0-453a-a2b3-06ed8c0a8b29@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com. I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do?? To test if it works, remove cover from wall jack, touch red and green wires from phone to same colors on jack.
Listen for dial tone. If you get one, so far so good.
Next screw the red and green wires from the phone to the jack and test for outgoing and incoming phone calls. If it works, you can just leave it that way- or attach an RJ11 plug to the phone so you can use it an any jack. Would you be able to use it for outgoing calls or just incoming?
David makes good point. While you may able to dial local and long distance numbers, many/most voice-mail and automated answering and directory systems cannot respond to dial pulses once you have connected through the phone system to them. Many still say 'Press X for such and such. Or stay on the line to be answered (Hopefully by a real live human being!!!!!). BTW: Have seen one or two phone oddities from time to time. There was one European phone that had 12 rotary dial numbers on it.
Also the standard speed of the dial pulses in North America and the UK used to be/is ten pulses per second. So it takes one second to dial zero! Old style rotary dial payphones outside sometimes used get pretty slow in cold weather and below about eight pulse per second the telephone equipment in the nice warm telephone building would misdial and one could get wrong numbers. And lose the money inserted! So sometimes one needed to push the dial back round to get enough speed. Also the ratio of make/break of the dial pulses was slightly different in different countries. Recalling in the UK each pulse around 66% break, 34% make.
In North America it was IIRC closer to 70% break etc. So if this is some unusual manufacture of phone from say Chechloslovakia, or some made up abomination of a 'fake vintage' phone made in Taiwan or somewhere, expect anything in way of performance on a standard North American telephone connection! Which is, btw, why, at one time, Bell System and other companies discouraged the installation/ connection of 'other' phones to their lines; too many problems and trouble calls!
BTW don't think a rotary dial phone will work on any of the VOIP (internet connected) services such as Skype!!!!!! George 10/8/2008, 9:46 น. Terry wrote: On Aug 10, 1:45 pm, wrote: I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do?? It may work just as is. Certainly likely to be able to answer an incoming call; o if it is in working condition at all.
Many telephone lines, at least those from regular 'line' telcos. Will still accept the pulses from the rotary dial. We have such a dial equipped phone in our hallway and it works just fine, although we tend to use a cordless phone because of ease of use and ease of pushing buttons and redialling etc. But when there is the occasional power outage with traditional telephone systems, often equipped with 24 hour battery back-upnothing works better than a plain old fashioned rotary phone. I don't understand why a rotary phone would be better.
Touch tone phones are also powered by the loop so if the loop happens to be on battery the touch tone phone will still work just as well as a rotary phone. If you want to test it before hooking up connect a 9 volt battery to the two wires (often red and green) to see if you hear a click in the earpiece, also try blowing or talking into the microphone part and see if you hear something; it's called side-tone (i.e. You should be able to hear yourself slightly. (Side tone sometimes is called 'Spitch') if so the phone may work.
However depending on the original quality of the phone (Bell system standard/Western Elctric/ AE Co. Chicago, for example, whether it is in good condition and its model you may or may not get good quality voice transmission, both ways. Although judging by some of the cheap junk phones that have been sold and in some cases given away an older standard rotary phone that meets international standards may be better! I have pre-1950s phones that work just fine. Special Ed 10/8/2008, 11:22 น.
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:45:10 -0700 (PDT), wrote: I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do?? I think the odds are more than 1/2 that it will work fine.
Just conect one of the two wires from the phone to the red wire on the wall and the other to the green. Which is red and which is green don't matter with dial phones, but if they do have colors, you might want to attach red to red and green to green.
This is most easy if you have a box mounted on the surface somewhere, because they have covers that come off, but if all your phone jacks are below the surface of the wall, with only the hole sticking out, you can still take off the wall plate and make your connections there. If your phone system no longer works with dial phones, you still won't harm the phone system. They're designed to handle even long short circuits, much longer than the split-second pulse-shorts that rotary phones make. I haven't tested this for decades, but used to be, if the red and green were shorted to each other for a long time, 50 seconds in a row?, the line would go almost dead (no dial tone but maybe some background noise) and I had to wait for about 10 minutes before the dial tone came back. I have a dial phone in my basement, probably not as old or pretty as yours, and it works fine. Marilyn & Bob 10/8/2008, 15:19 น. On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:19:49 -0400, 'Marilyn & Bob' wrote: I believe that the old rotary phones were 3 wire, not two.
It's been a long time, but I think it was red/green/yellow (or was it red/green/black) They connected to the matched red and green on the jack with the third color attached to the red (again, I think). The third wire was necessary to power the bell (yes, those phones had mechanical bells). Peace, BobJ I don't know all phones from all years, and there may well be 3 wire phones, but there are certainly plenty of two wire dial phones. The cord may have 4 wires but in that case only the red and green are for talking. Princess phones used the other two wires for a light, but I don't think he has a princess. My oldest phone would go in the living room if I had a jack there. It's probably older than I am, 61, but has only two wires.
Its bottom is like half a grapefruit face down, but black with a dial on the front, and a four pronged almost bakelite cradle above it that holds the handset maybe two inches higher than the grapefruit. The sillhouette of this phone is often used to indicate Ma Bell or telephones in general. I bought it in 1967 at Olsen's Electronics, on Western Avenue in Chicago,across the street from Allied Radio. They had a big 3 foot x3x3 box full of phones for 99 cents, plus a handset from another box for 15 cents. I bought three handsets but only one phone. I wish I'd bought more.
They must have been at least 20 years old at that time. Just two wires.I remember the day I came home from school and our non-dial phones were changed for dial phones. The desk phone in my parents' room was changed totally, but the wall phone, which was a little rectangular box with a hook for the handset, was still there. The repairman had taken off the flat 2x2' top and replaced it with a top that had a dial. I didn't take it apart, but I'm sure he spliced the dial into one of the wires inside.Unless he did change the phone and the rest lookesd so much alike that I missed it. [email protected] 10/8/2008, 17:56 น. Steve Kraus 10/8/2008, 19:11 น.
In article, wrote: I believe that the old rotary phones were 3 wire, not two. That was for selective ringing on a party line. You are correct. Just hook the green and yellow to the green on the new jack. Since there are still many, MANY rotary phones in service out there, I am unaware of any PUBLIC switch that does not respond to dial pulses.
Also, more and more services that, in the past, required Touchtone (press '1' for this, '2' for that), are converting to voice response so an old dial pulse phone is actually returning to nearly full functionality. What goes around, comes around.:) JR [email protected] 10/8/2008, 19:55 น. Marilyn & Bob 10/8/2008, 20:45 น. 'Jim Redelfs' wrote in message news:[email protected]. In articlewrote: I believe that the old rotary phones were 3 wire, not two. That was for selective ringing on a party line.
You are correct. Just hook the green and yellow to the green on the new jack. Yes that is exactly what I meant. You need to connect both the green and the yellow wires from the phone cord (thanks for the memory trigger) to the green wire on the jack or the bell will not ring.
Peace, BobJ - Peace, BobJ Since there are still many, MANY rotary phones in service out there, I am unaware of any PUBLIC switch that does not respond to dial pulses. Also, more and more services that, in the past, required Touchtone (press '1' for this, '2' for that), are converting to voice response so an old dial pulse phone is actually returning to nearly full functionality. What goes around, comes around. - :) JR [email protected] 10/8/2008, 21:20 น. On Aug 10, 11:45 pm, 'Marilyn & Bob' wrote: 'Jim Redelfs' wrote in message news:[email protected]. In articleJR- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - THANK YOU TO ALL - next question I have - I got the phone connected and it works, I've received and made calls - only thing is that the volume I Hear is low, the other person hears me fine, but the sound I hear is low, there appears to be maybe a volume dial on the bottom of the phone but that doesn't help - is there anything else I could do to increase the volume of the earpiece? [email protected] 11/8/2008, 3:35 น.
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:51:09 -0500, 'Steve Barker DLT' wrote: Plug it in, it should work. The system is backward compatible in most areas. s However, those old phones required considerably more current to ring than most new electronic phones.
That may not be available. wrote in message news:faa99c66-f2b0-453a-a2b3-06ed8c0a8b29@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com. I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do?? - Mark Lloyd 'Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups' Mark Lloyd 11/8/2008, 8:13 น. On Aug 10, 10:56 pm, wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:19:49 -0400, 'Marilyn & Bob' wrote: I believe that the old rotary phones were 3 wire, not two. That was for selective ringing on a party line. Just hook the green and yellow to the green on the new jack.
Yes and no: In most cases and on a single party line the 'third wire' allowed the 'ringer (electromechanical bell inside phone or sometimes even separate) to be connected, or not connected as required. The above posting is correct that on 'some' party lines the ringing was sent on one side of the line (with respect to ground) for, say, one party on a two party line and other side of the line for the other party! There were also other other systems of ringing; including multiparty coded ringing (two longs and short etc.) which also sometimes used one side of the line or the other. And ringing systems that used different frequencies of ringing; there was on for example (Sold by AECo. Chicago), that allowed for five different ringing frequencies, 16, 25, 33, 50, 66 cycle/hertz etc. And with those five frequencies on each side of the telephone line it was possible to have up to ten parties on one line.
This was usually on long rural lines; but am familiar with one city that used to have four parties on a line, using the different frequency ringing. That city did not use ringing to ground (i.e. One side of the line because of the difficulty, in that rocky and high resistivity of the soil location, of obtaining and maintaining good ground connections!
So in that instance the four (not five) frequencies were sent on the pair of wires, not in respect to ground. The advantage being that only one party's phone would ring on an incoming call; thus allowing a 'little more' privacy! ALL OF WHICH: Leads to another comment/suggestion to the original poster: If you wish or have trouble getting your 'vintage' phone to ring on incoming calls (and you wish to have it so) check that the ringer/bell is connected either by that third lead or internally inside the phone. Also if it is of some non North American manufacture it 'may' have been designed to work best on some ringing frequency other than the 20 hertz most commonly used in North America; however recollection is that the non frequency selective ringing phones are usually not that sensitive to ringing frequency and would sometimes ring (continuously or intermittently) when power faults came in contact with telephone lines. Strikes one that there must have been as many varieties of phones around the world since Alexander Graham, a Scottish immigrant to Canada discovered the principle of turning speech into variations of electric current, as the many versions of radios/wireless sets in use since the advent of radio transmission. Ian 11/8/2008, 11:14 น. Both if it's working properly- though as others have pointed out, there is no touch tone capability so you couldn't Press One For English.
Way back when, Radio Shack used to sell a pocket sized touch-tone generator- or maybe hold the speaker of your cellie up to the mouthpiece of the old phone and enter them that way I still have one of those RS touch-tone generators. Used to use it for phone patch operations when my 2-meter radio didn't have touch- tone capability.
Barry - N4BUQ David Nebenzahl 11/8/2008, 12:19 น. On 8/10/2008 9:32 AM terry spake thus: On Aug 10, 2:25 pm, Kurt Ullman wrote: In article'Special Ed' wrote: wrote in message news:faa99c66-f2b0-453a-a2b3-06ed8c0a8b29@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com. I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do??
To test if it works, remove cover from wall jack, touch red and green wires from phone to same colors on jack. Listen for dial tone. If you get one, so far so good. Next screw the red and green wires from the phone to the jack and test for outgoing and incoming phone calls.
If it works, you can just leave it that way- or attach an RJ11 plug to the phone so you can use it an any jack. Would you be able to use it for outgoing calls or just incoming? David makes good point. While you may able to dial local and long distance numbers, many/most voice-mail and automated answering and directory systems cannot respond to dial pulses once you have connected through the phone system to them. Many still say 'Press X for such and such.
Or stay on the line to be answered (Hopefully by a real live human being!!!!!). I don't know for sure, but suspect that dialing 'O' would get you through to the 'operator' the way it does by pressing 'O' with such systems (most are set up to reach some default number on that keypress).
'Wikipedia. It reminds me. Of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.
It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.'
- With apologies to H. Mencken mm 11/8/2008, 12:40 น. On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:19:35 -0700, David Nebenzahl wrote: I don't know for sure, but suspect that dialing 'O' would get you through to the 'operator' the way it does by pressing 'O' with such systems (most are set up to reach some default number on that keypress).
Also I think with enough practice, one can learn to make touch-tone sounds with one's mouth. I think there was a guy on tv who could do that. OT I get few junk phone calls now, but with one, I pressed 9, and a recording said something like, 'You have been placed on our do-not-call list'. Philsvintageradios 11/8/2008, 12:40 น. On Aug 10, 8:45 am, wrote: I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do?? I have one of these old dial phones. I can answer it, and call out but the bell won't ring.
I was told it was a 'party line phone' and therefore it requires a different frequency to ring. If this is true, is there a way to modify it so it can ring?
I am in canada and it is a very common design, your standard black desk phone, these were the ones they phone company (bc tel) provided, unless you paid extra to get some other fancy color or design Phil AZ Nomad 11/8/2008, 12:56 น. On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:40:04 -0400, mm wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:19:35 -0700, David Nebenzahl wrote: I don't know for sure, but suspect that dialing 'O' would get you through to the 'operator' the way it does by pressing 'O' with such systems (most are set up to reach some default number on that keypress). Also I think with enough practice, one can learn to make touch-tone sounds with one's mouth.
I think there was a guy on tv who could do that. You'd need to sets of vocal cords in order to generate the two simultaneous frequencies used to DTFM (tone-tone) dialing. AZ Nomad 11/8/2008, 12:56 น. On 8/11/2008 12:56 PM AZ Nomad spake thus: But that's just what the Tuvan throat singers do: sing two tones simultaneously. Amazing stuff. Could probably be trained to do DTMF.
'Wikipedia. It reminds me. Of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle.
It is balder and dash.' - With apologies to H. Mencken Stormin Mormon 11/8/2008, 14:05 น. Mm wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:19:35 -0700, David Nebenzahl wrote: I don't know for sure, but suspect that dialing 'O' would get you through to the 'operator' the way it does by pressing 'O' with such systems (most are set up to reach some default number on that keypress). Also I think with enough practice, one can learn to make touch-tone sounds with one's mouth. I think there was a guy on tv who could do that.
I saw that, but it's very difficult because each button generates a pair of tones. OTOH, you can pulse dial from a touch tone phone by pressing the receiver hook the number of pulses for each digit.
It's not as hard as it sounds. There's a lot of leeway in the pulse rate and duty cycle. If you've ever seen a phone in a public area with no dial or touch pad (to keep people from making outgoing calls) there's a way around this limitation. Mm 14/8/2008, 22:37 น. On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:40:41 -0700 (PDT), philsvintageradios wrote: On Aug 10, 8:45 am, wrote: I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do?? I have one of these old dial phones. I can answer it, and call out but the bell won't ring.
I was told it was a 'party line phone' and therefore it requires a different frequency to ring. If this is true, is there a way to modify it so it can ring?
I don't think frequency has anything to do with it. Well, it may have to do with how the phone rings, but not if it rings. Is this made by Western Electic? If that's not the name, does it have a metal box inside with a plastic top with lots of screws with wires under them.
I'm in the US so just maybe there is some reason there is a difference, but Bud is right. There are two wires from the bell, and it's likely that one of the two goes to the same screw that the green or red goes to (one of the wires in the cord to the wall.) That's fine. But the other wire from the bell probalby doesn't go to the remaining green or red. Espeically if it had been used on a party line. So note where that other wire is and move it to the green/red that the first wire isn't connected to.
But bear in mind: There was a limit to how many phones with bells one could use in those days, something like 4. When different kinds of noise makers were used in phones, they assigned a Ringer Equivalence Number of 1 to the original mechanical bells. Everything else is lower than 1, maybe 0.2 or 0.3.
Add up all the bells in your house and if they exeeeded 4, the phones wouldn't ring (even though everything else usually worked) So people with a lot of extensions would disconnect one of the bells inside the phone to make sure the phones still rang, or they would do it so that phone didn't make any noise. So maybe the wire (often with a two-tined fork on the end of it) is just sitting in space, connected to nothing. AFAIK the maximum sum of all the RENs is still 4, but maybe they lowered it some places because there are so few real bells out there.
Remember this if all your phones stop ringing one day! I am in canada and it is a very common design, your standard black desk phone, these were the ones they phone company (bc tel) provided, unless you paid extra to get some other fancy color or design Phil mm 14/8/2008, 22:41 น. On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:14:08 -0700, SMS wrote: Also I think with enough practice, one can learn to make touch-tone sounds with one's mouth. I think there was a guy on tv who could do that.
I saw that, but it's very difficult because each button generates a pair of tones. OTOH, you can pulse dial from a touch tone phone by pressing the receiver hook the number of pulses for each digit. It's not as hard as it sounds. And certainly worth learning when locked in a dungeon. There's a lot of leeway in the pulse rate and duty cycle.
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If you've ever seen a phone in a public area with no dial or touch pad (to keep people from making outgoing calls) there's a way around this limitation. [email protected] 29/9/2014, 13:40 น.
Do you hear pulses in the handset as the dial spins back? For example, there should be 3 pulses as it spins back from 3. The pulsing could be seen by unplugging the phone and connecting a 1.5 V battery and light bulb in series with the phone terminals. With the handset in the cradle, the light should be off. Lifting the handset should turn the light on. Turning the dial and releasing it should cause the dial to pulse 10 times a second. If the pulsing seemed to be okay, I'd try the phone elsewhere in case the problem is with the local phone office or line.
Stormin Mormon 29/9/2014, 14:49 น. On Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:45:10 AM UTC-4, wrote: I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do?? Probably just replace the cord with one with a RJ-45 jack on it. If you don't care about keeping it original looking any spade to RJ-45 cord should work.
Most phone exchanges still will work with rotary AKA pulse dialing. So will Verizon's FiOS boxes - I'm using a late 40's vintage Western Electric wall phone in my kitchen, we have FiOS. The only thing to watch is the REN (Ringer Equivalence Number) and the limits your phone company imposes (each device connected in your house will have a REN and when you sum them up there is a maximum number for your phone number) - any old phone with a mechanical ringer probably has a REN of one. Nate Stormin Mormon 29/9/2014, 15:48 น. On Monday, September 29, 2014 6:48:52 PM UTC-4, Stormin Mormon wrote: On 9/29/2014 6:43 PM, N8N wrote: On Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:45:10 AM UTC-4, wrote: I just got an old rotary phone from an antique store - the original cord is attached - I want to hook it up and use it in my home - what do I do??
Probably just replace the cord with one with a RJ-45 jack on it. You didn't reply soon enough. The guy posted in 2008, and died shortly after in 2009, when he had a heart attack and could not dial for help. Odd, this thread was at the top of the feed on Gurgle Gropes when I logged in to check Usenet. Yeah, I know, get a real newsreader, but I'm not always on my own PC. Nate Terry Coombs 29/9/2014, 16:37 น. On 03:40 PM, wrote: I have 2 rotary phones that have dial tone and receives calls.
Unfortunately, I cannot dial out on either phone. The first phone was purchased appx 1 month ago from a local 2nd hand store. The phone company has serviced the lines and added jacks as requested appx 2 weeks back. The tech had stated that there was a problem with the first phone. The second phone was received on 9.29 and I still have the same issue.
Is there a simple fix? If you have a 'POTS' line you can dial out. But no dial-out is possible on VoIP [email protected] 29/9/2014, 20:00 น.
Micky 29/9/2014, 23:44 น. On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:06:31 -0500, philo wrote: On 03:40 PM, wrote: I have 2 rotary phones that have dial tone and receives calls. Unfortunately, I cannot dial out on either phone. The first phone was purchased appx 1 month ago from a local 2nd hand store. The phone company has serviced the lines and added jacks as requested appx 2 weeks back. The tech had stated that there was a problem with the first phone. The second phone was received on 9.29 and I still have the same issue.
Is there a simple fix? If these are Western Electric phones, it's hard to believe they're broken. (I have one 6 feet away that works fine.) If they are newer than that, with brand names on them other than WE, they might well be.
(Somewhere I have the wiring diagram for WE dial and touch tone phones.) But try them at someone else's house, someone with a different carrier if possible. What kind of jacks did the phone company add? Not those 4 pin ones with the pins almost 3/4s of an inch apart? Do that and then if there's still a problem we can talk about fixing the phone. If you have a 'POTS' line you can dial out. but no dial-out is possible on VoIP I have an old dial phone and I'm using semaphores for communication, but I can't get the phone to actuate the semaphores. What should I do?
Tekkie® 30/9/2014, 16:53 น. On 2014-09-30, wrote: I was wondering if any of the new boutique phone companies are dropping pulse dial. I expect most of them have done this. Amongst the major players, Verizon still supports pulse dial for FIOS. - Roger Blake (Change 'invalid' to 'com' for email. Google Groups killfiled.) NSA sedition and treason - - Gz 30/9/2014, 19:33 น. Wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:06:31 -0500, philo wrote: On 03:40 PM, wrote: I have 2 rotary phones that have dial tone and receives calls.
Unfortunately, I cannot dial out on either phone. The first phone was purchased appx 1 month ago from a local 2nd hand store. The phone company has serviced the lines and added jacks as requested appx 2 weeks back. The tech had stated that there was a problem with the first phone. The second phone was received on 9.29 and I still have the same issue. Is there a simple fix?
VoIP I was wondering if any of the new boutique phone companies are dropping pulse dial. I can take my old fashioned touch wall phone and tap out the pulses with the hook. That proves it's capable of pulse detection. It's also hooked to the comcast box, so it works either pulse or tone. Watch the movie cellular. Greg Pico Rico 30/9/2014, 19:36 น.
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The first telephones were directly connected to each other from one customer's office or residence to another customer's location. Being impractical beyond just a few customers, these systems were quickly replaced by manually operated centrally located. This gave rise to telephone service in which each telephone is connected by a pair of dedicated wires to a local central office switching system, which developed into fully automated systems starting in the early 1900s, and eventually into a worldwide. For greater mobility, various radio systems were developed for transmission between mobile stations on ships and automobiles in the mid-20th century. Hand-held were introduced for personal service starting in 1973.
In later decades their analog cellular system evolved into digital networks with greater capability and lower cost. Has given most modern cell phones capabilities far beyond simple voice conversation. They may be able to, send and receive, or, play music or, do or immerse the user in. Since 1999, the trend for mobile phones is that integrate all mobile communication and computing needs. Schematic of a landline telephone installation A traditional telephone system, also known as (POTS), commonly carries both control and audio signals on the same ( C in diagram) of insulated wires, the telephone line. The control and signaling equipment consists of three components, the ringer, the hookswitch, and a dial.
The ringer, or beeper, light or other device (A7), alerts the user to incoming calls. The hookswitch signals to the central office that the user has picked up the handset to either answer a call or initiate a call. A dial, if present, is used by the subscriber to transmit a telephone number to the central office when initiating a call. Until the 1960s dials used almost exclusively the technology, which was replaced by (DTMF) with (A4). A major expense of wire-line telephone service is the outside wire plant. Telephones transmit both the incoming and outgoing speech signals on a single pair of wires. A twisted pair line rejects (EMI) and better than a single wire or an untwisted pair.
The strong outgoing speech signal from the microphone (transmitter) does not overpower the weaker incoming speaker (receiver) signal with because a (A3) and other components compensate the imbalance. The junction box (B) arrests lightning (B2) and (B1) to maximize the signal power for the line length. Telephones have similar adjustments for inside line lengths (A8). The line voltages are negative compared to earth, to reduce. Negative voltage attracts positive metal ions toward the wires. Details of operation.
Further information: The landline telephone contains a switchhook (A4) and an alerting device, usually a ringer (A7), that remains connected to the phone line whenever the phone is ' (i.e. The switch (A4) is open), and other components which are connected when the phone is '. The off-hook components include a transmitter (microphone, A2), a receiver (speaker, A1), and other circuits for dialing, filtering (A3), and amplification. A wishing to speak to another party will pick up the telephone's handset, thereby operating a lever which closes the switchhook (A4), which powers the telephone by connecting the transmitter (microphone), receiver (speaker), and related audio components to the line.
The off-hook circuitry has a low resistance (less than 300 ) which causes a (DC), which comes down the line (C) from the telephone exchange. The exchange detects this current, attaches a digit receiver circuit to the line, and sends a to indicate readiness.
On a modern, the caller then presses the number keys to send the telephone number of the. The keys control a tone generator circuit (not shown) that makes tones that the exchange receives. A uses, sending electrical pulses, that the exchange can count to get the telephone number (as of 2010 many exchanges were still equipped to handle pulse dialing). If the called party's line is available, the exchange sends an intermittent (about 75 volts (AC) in North America and UK and 60 volts in Germany) to alert the called party to an incoming call. If the called party's line is in use, the exchange returns a to the calling party. However, if the called party's line is in use but has installed, the exchange sends an intermittent audible tone to the called party to indicate an incoming call.
The ringer of a telephone (A7) is connected to the line through a (A6), which blocks direct current but passes the alternating current of the ringing signal. The telephone draws no current when it is on hook, while a DC voltage is continually applied to the line.
Exchange circuitry (D2) can send an AC current down the line to activate the ringer and announce an incoming call. When there is no automatic exchange, telephones have hand-cranked to generate a ringing voltage back to the exchange or any other telephone on the same line. When a landline telephone is inactive (on hook), the circuitry at the telephone exchange detects the absence of direct current to indicate that the line is not in use. When a party initiates a call to this line, the exchange sends the ringing signal.
When the called party picks up the handset, they actuate a double-circuit switchhook (not shown) which may simultaneously disconnects the alerting device and connects the audio circuitry to the line. This, in turn, draws direct current through the line, confirming that the called phone is now active.
The exchange circuitry turns off the ring signal, and both telephones are now active and connected through the exchange. The parties may now converse as long as both phones remain off hook.
When a party hangs up, placing the handset back on the cradle or hook, direct current ceases in that line, signaling the exchange to disconnect the call. Calls to parties beyond the local exchange are carried over lines which establish connections between exchanges. In modern telephone networks, and are often employed in such connections. May be used for communication over very long distances.
In most landline telephones, the transmitter and receiver (microphone and speaker) are located in the handset, although in a these components may be located in the base or in a separate enclosure. Powered by the line, the microphone (A2) produces a modulated electric current which varies its and in response to the waves arriving at its. The resulting current is transmitted along the telephone line to the local exchange then on to the other phone (via the local exchange or via a larger network), where it passes through the of the receiver (A3).
The varying current in the coil produces a corresponding movement of the receiver's diaphragm, reproducing the original sound waves present at the transmitter. Along with the microphone and speaker, additional circuitry is incorporated to prevent the incoming speaker signal and the outgoing microphone signal from interfering with each other. This is accomplished through a (A3). The incoming audio signal passes through a resistor (A8) and the primary winding of the coil (A3) which passes it to the speaker (A1). Since the current path A8 – A3 has a far lower impedance than the microphone (A2), virtually all of the incoming signal passes through it and bypasses the microphone. At the same time the DC voltage across the line causes a DC current which is split between the resistor-coil (A8-A3) branch and the microphone-coil (A2-A3) branch. The DC current through the resistor-coil branch has no effect on the incoming audio signal.
But the DC current passing through the microphone is turned into AC current (in response to voice sounds) which then passes through only the upper branch of the coil's (A3) primary winding, which has far fewer turns than the lower primary winding. This causes a small portion of the microphone output to be fed back to the speaker, while the rest of the AC current goes out through the phone line. A is a telephone designed for testing the telephone network, and may be attached directly to aerial lines and other infrastructure components. Bell placing the first New York to Chicago telephone call in 1892 In the United Kingdom the blower is used as a slang term for a telephone. The slang came from the ships prior to telephones.
Communication was direct, through a voice pipe. The pipe had a whistle inserted at each end. When a message was to be passed, the caller would remove the whistle at his end, place his mouth into the cavity, sealing it. He would then blow hard. The whistle at the other end would attract the man on watch. He would remove his whistle and call into the pipe.
Conversations over, both whistles were replaced. Before the development of the electric telephone, the term 'telephone' was applied to other inventions, and not all early researchers of the electrical device called it 'telephone'. A communication device for sailing vessels The Telephone was the invention of a captain John Taylor in 1844. This instrument used four to communicate with vessels in foggy weather. 1860, used the term in reference to his, his device appears to be the first such device based on conversion of sound into electrical impulses, the term telephone was adopted into the vocabulary of many languages. It is derived from the: τῆλε, tēle, 'far' and φωνή, phōnē, 'voice', together meaning 'distant voice'.
Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed. As with other influential such as, the, and the, several inventors pioneered experimental work on voice transmission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas. New controversies over the issue still arise from time to time., and, amongst others, have all been credited with the invention of the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be awarded a patent for the electric telephone by the (USPTO) in March 1876. The Bell patents were forensically victorious and commercially decisive. That first patent by Bell was the master patent of the telephone, from which other patents for electric telephone devices and features flowed. In 1876, shortly after the telephone was invented, Hungarian engineer invented the telephone switch, which allowed for the formation of, and eventually networks. Early development. Cartoon by journalist shows a man using a candlestick telephone, 1917.
In the 1890s a new smaller style of telephone was introduced, packaged in three parts. The transmitter stood on a stand, known as a ' for its shape. When not in use, the receiver hung on a hook with a switch in it, known as a 'switchhook'. Previous telephones required the user to operate a separate switch to connect either the voice or the bell. With the new kind, the user was less likely to leave the phone 'off the hook'.
In phones connected to magneto exchanges, the bell, induction coil, battery and magneto were in a separate bell box or '. In phones connected to common battery exchanges, the ringer box was installed under a desk, or other out of the way place, since it did not need a battery or magneto. Cradle designs were also used at this time, having a handle with the receiver and transmitter attached, now called a, separate from the cradle base that housed the magneto crank and other parts. They were larger than the 'candlestick' and more popular. Disadvantages of single wire operation such as crosstalk and had already led to the use of twisted pairs and, for long distance telephones,. Users at the beginning of the 20th century did not place from their own telephones but made an appointment to use a special soundproofed long distance furnished with the latest technology.
What turned out to be the most popular and longest lasting physical style of telephone was introduced in the early 20th century, including Bell's desk set. A carbon granule transmitter and electromagnetic receiver were united in a single molded plastic handle, which when not in use sat in a cradle in the base unit. The circuit diagram of the model 202 shows the direct connection of the transmitter to the line, while the receiver was induction coupled. In local battery configurations, when the local loop was too long to provide sufficient current from the exchange, the transmitter was powered by a local battery and inductively coupled, while the receiver was included in the local loop. The coupling transformer and the ringer were mounted in a separate enclosure, called the subscriber set.
The dial switch in the base interrupted the line current by repeatedly but very briefly disconnecting the line 1 to 10 times for each digit, and the hook switch (in the center of the circuit diagram) disconnected the line and the transmitter battery while the handset was on the cradle. In the 1930s, telephone sets were developed that combined the bell and induction coil with the desk set, obviating a separate ringer box. The becoming commonplace in the 1930s in many areas enabled customer-dialed service, but some magneto systems remained even into the 1960s. After World War II, the telephone networks saw rapid expansion and more efficient telephone sets, such as the in the United States, were developed that permitted larger local networks centered around central offices. A breakthrough new technology was the introduction of Touch-Tone signaling using by (AT&T) in 1963.
Fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants 1997–2007 The invention of the transistor in 1947 dramatically changed the technology used in telephone systems and in the long-distance transmission networks. With the development of in the 1960s, gradually evolved towards which improved the capacity, quality, and cost of the network. The development of digital data communications method, such as the protocols used for the, it became possible to digitize voice and transmit it as real-time data across, giving rise to the field of Internet Protocol (IP) telephony, also known as (VoIP), a term that reflects the methodology memorably. VoIP has proven to be a that is rapidly replacing traditional telephone network infrastructure. As of January 2005, up to 10% of telephone subscribers in and have switched to this digital telephone service. A January 2005 article suggested that Internet telephony may be 'the next big thing.'
As of 2006 many VoIP companies offer service to. From a customer perspective, IP telephony uses a high-bandwidth Internet connection and specialized customer premises equipment to transmit telephone calls via the Internet, or any modern private data network.
The customer equipment may be an (ATA) which interfaces a conventional analog telephone to the IP networking equipment, or it may be an that has the networking and interface technology built into the desk-top set and provides the traditional, familiar parts of a telephone, the handset, the dial or keypad, and a ringer in a package that usually resembles a standard telephone set. In addition, many computer software vendors and telephony operators provide application software that emulates a telephone by use of an attached microphone and audio headset,. Despite the new features and conveniences of IP telephones, some may have notable disadvantages compared to traditional telephones. Unless the IP telephone's components are backed up with an or other emergency power source, the phone ceases to function during a as can occur during an emergency or disaster when the phone is most needed. Traditional phones connected to the older network do not experience that problem since they are powered by the telephone company's battery supply, which will continue to function even if there is a prolonged power outage. Another problem in Internet-based services is the lack of a fixed physical location, impacting the provisioning of emergency services such as police, fire or ambulance, should someone call for them. Unless the registered user updates the IP phone's physical address location after moving to a new residence, emergency services can be, and have been, dispatched to the wrong location.
Symbols Graphic symbols used to designate telephone service or phone-related information in print, and other media include ℡ (2121), ☎ (260E), ☏ (260F), ✆ (2706) and ⌕ (2315). Use In 2002, only 10% of the world’s population used cell phones and by 2005 that percentage had risen to 46%. By the end of 2009, there were a total of nearly 6 billion mobile and fixed-line telephone subscribers worldwide. This included 1.26 billion fixed-line subscribers and 4.6 billion mobile subscribers. — Telegraphy (Bell's first telephone patent)—Alexander Graham Bell. — Electric Telegraphy (permanent magnet receiver)—Alexander Graham Bell. — Speaking Telegraph (graphite transmitter)—Thomas Edison.
— Speaking Telephone (carbon button transmitter)—Thomas Edison. — Carbon Telephone (carbon granules transmitter)—Thomas Edison.
— Telephone (solid back carbon transmitter)—Anthony C. White (Bell engineer) This design was used until 1925 and installed phones were used until the 1940s.
— Duplex Radio Communication and Signalling Appartus—G. Sweigert.
— Cellular Mobile Communication System—Amos Edward Joel (Bell Labs). — Radio Telephone System (DynaTAC )—Martin Cooper et al. (Motorola) See also. United States Coast Guard Sound-Powered Telephone Talkers Manual, 1979, p. 1.
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Retrieved 5 July 2009. Further reading. Brooks, John (1976). Telephone: The first hundred years. Bruce, Robert V. Cornell University Press.
Casson, Herbert Newton. (1910) The history of the telephone. Coe, Lewis (1995). The Telephone and Its Several Inventors: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
Evenson, A. Edward (2000). The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray – Alexander Bell Controversy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Fischer, Claude S. (1994) America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940 (Univ of California Press, 1994).
Huurdeman, Anton A. The Worldwide History of Telecommunications Hoboken: NJ: Wiley-IEEE Press. Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. MacDougall, Robert. The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Mueller, Milton. (1993) 'Universal service in telephone history: A reconstruction.' Telecommunications Policy 17.5 (1993): 352–69. Todd, Kenneth P.
American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T). External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for. Look up or in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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