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| Thread ID: 64516 | 2005-12-17 20:42:00 | Walkie Talkie Phones | lazydog (148) | PC World Chat |
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| 413545 | 2005-12-17 20:42:00 | When i was a kid at primary school me and my best mate swapped 100 marbles (including 10 bonkers and 5 spitfires) for two phone handsets that had been joined together with about 100 yrds of wire and a battery. We used them to talk to each other like wired walkie talkies. I want to make another set for my grandkids but cant remember how they were wired up together. Anyone know how its done? |
lazydog (148) | ||
| 413546 | 2005-12-17 20:53:00 | When i was a kid at primary school me and my best mate swapped 100 marbles (including 10 bonkers and 5 spitfires) for two phone handsets that had been joined together with about 100 yrds of wire and a battery. We used them to talk to each other like wired walkie talkies. I want to make another set for my grandkids but cant remember how they were wired up together. Anyone know how its done?Its pretty easy, everything is in series. Battery "+"-mic-speacker-other handset-mic-speaker-back to battery "-". |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 413547 | 2005-12-17 21:09:00 | Cool. I thought it was as basic as someting like that cause there was bugger all to them. Just wanted to make sure. Thanks. |
lazydog (148) | ||
| 413548 | 2005-12-17 21:36:00 | You might've had sound-powered phones too . . they were a US Navy communications setup that was ship-wide . There are no batteries or power supply . . . just headset and mouthpiece . . . they can be tied in to others of the same design and there doesn't seem to be much deterioration even with 20 or more sets on the same line . I was a 1-JV an JL phone talker in the Navy during my watches on the bridge . . . I had two different circuits to monitor at the same time, one in each ear . . the lookouts on all levels and areas of the ship, and Tac-Plot, the radar and navigation department . There were ringers . . . (but we never used them as all circuits were manned 24/7 anyway) that could make bells ring at the bulkhead connections in various compartments if we had to get the attention of some other talkers . . . but that is just an old crank energizer device that rang their bells and had nothing to do with the communications though . I bet you can still find surplus equiptment from the US Navy in NZ . I'd check that out for a very foolproof system . Here's a link ( . dynalec . com/Dynalec-Sound-Powered-Telephones-How . htm" target="_blank">www . dynalec . com) to what I used and am talking about . |
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