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- From: Kimberly.Bobrow@f488.n141.z1.fidonet.org (Kimberly Bobrow)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Connecting To Phones...
- Message-ID: <23891@handicap.news>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 21:28:12 GMT
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- [This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
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- In a message to Kimberly Bobrow <07-17-92>, Jim Brown writes:
-
- JB> You dont need an acoustic coupler. As I mentioned to Jack a few days
- JB> ago, you can connect to the Telephone with a cord that has the RJ-11 on
- JB> one end and Alligator clips on the RED and GREEN wires on the other end.
- JB> You can patch in at the wall jack, at the terminal block of the phone,
- JB> or even at the mouthpiece (Unscrew the mouthpiece and clip on to the two
- JB> terminals you find there.) This last connection will not "hear the dial
- JB> tone" so you will have to blind dial.
-
- You are a genius Jim, and thank you very much! I used exactly this
- setup at a hotel recently, and it worked reasonably well. I had to
- use the mouthpiece, and did have some nasty line noise on a couple
- of connections, and had to seriously fiddle with how I dialed (my
- terminal program didn't recognize the hotel's dial tone as a dial
- tone - and I wanted to use my calling card, etc.) but I was able to
- check my mail this way! I think once school starts for the kids
- again, I'll finally be able to get them onto SilentTalk!
-
- Thanks again!
-
- --Kimberly
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