31 Dec
2007
31 Dec
'07
10:21 p.m.
On Monday 31 December 2007 15:13, Tom Watson wrote:
If you want to make two "500" sets talk to
each other, a nice 6 Volt
battery works quite well placed in series with the two sets. It won't make
them ring, but you CAN talk. Use a lantern battery (or 4 D cells) and
unless you are making DTMF (touch-tone) on a polarity sensitive set (older
2500 sets) polarity makes little difference.
That's some of the sort of thing I used to do when I was a kid...
Worked well, except I got into trouble one time trying to go across the
street with that setup, the wire wasn't long enough, and the splice in the
middle didn't hold up real well. :-)
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