Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request From: ROCKY@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How do You Hook up a Phone For a Play? Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 18:21:09 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mr. News) Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 49 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 194, Message 5 of 6 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hub.eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu Just a couple of quick notes on this topic. First of all, due to the kind contribution of someone whose name I unfortunately cannot remember, I am now holding a catalog from Proctor. Their 46220 'Telephone Hot Line Automatic Ringing Private Line` includes its own power supply and ringing generator system. It even comes with an optional battery pack. As was mentioned in the newsgroup earlier, this is clearly the best way to go. Prices aren't listed in my copy. Once more, to contact them: Dave Koshak, National Product Line Sales Manager Proctor & Associates 15050 Northeast 36th Redmond, Washington 98052 1-800-824-9719 For those brave souls who want to try a cheaper method, get a copy of a truly amazing surplus catalog -- I didn't know such a catalog still existed and surplus fans all should get a copy -- catalog WS-90 from: Fair Radio Sales Co. P.O. Box 1105 Lima, Ohio 45802 419-223-2196 On page 17 they have a handcrank magneto generator removed from telephone equipment for $15 used/checked. Catalog says use as 'remote signaler (ring bells, buzzers), or as ~worm shocker~.` For the truly adventuresome they also have a 20 Hz inverter module on p. 5 that produces 20 Hz 65 V 50 ma ringing signal, but the rub is you need 110V *DC*. This little gadget is $7.95, used. One final note, the bug-detectors on the market today (someone mentioned seeing one in a mailorder catalog) would only work on bugs of a nature so obvious that I doubt anyone uses them. And, as Operation Sundevil showed, if a *LEGAL* wiretap is being placed on your phone by the government, all they do is call up the phone company and the computer does the deed for them. So don`t waste your money, is my recommendation. One note in the realm of blue sky: someone I know in the chip labs at Cal-Berkeley says there is now a tiny little chip out that has on it a solar cell that puts out enough power to run the transmitter that is also on this chip, and with the transmitter comes a micro-etched plate that functions as a transducer. Thus, a self-powered bug that is nearly too small to be visible ... please don't yell at me if this is too much for you to believe as I am only repeating gossip ... thanks. Rocky ROCKY@CUP.PORTAL.COM