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From: jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,alt.fax
Subject: Re: Multiplexing FAX & voice
Message-ID: <2422@loral.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 89 00:48:18 GMT
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Reply-To: jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay Bowden)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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>However, a friend just told me about a $125 device he uses that detects
>the "sender's FAX carrier" after the first ring and switches between FAX
>and voice mode without hassle. 
>
A device called Fax Line Manager sells for $89.95 at the Price Club
here in S. Cal.  I got one for myself but never used it until I sold
it to a client.  It works for him.  So get this: the thing answers the
line itself, then emits a low burp of tones, then decides if the
call should go to the FAX line or to the voice line, and then it
RE-GENERATES A RING SIGNAL OF ITS OWN on whichever line it sends
the call to!  That's a 90 VAC signal!  I was amazed!  But then,
I know what it takes to do that, being an electronic engineer, and
all. 

- Jay


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Jay Bowden, EE/Consultant; see also Bowden Engineering
Currently contracted at Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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