Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Segal) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Circuit for ringing/inuse light. Summary: Wanted - such a circuit. Keywords: ringing in use telltale Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 88 02:58:41 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Reply-To: jailbait@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Segal) Organization: The Big Electric Cat Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu (TELECOM Digest Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 164, message 2 I'm looking to build a box (2 actually - In use by one phone, ringing far from both phones) to tell me (okay, so I'm getting repetative) 1) when the line is in use (so no one picks up on the modem) and 2) when the phone is ringing quite a distance and alot of noise from where I'm sitting. What do I need for these? Do either (both) exist commercially? Etc. Also, I want to hook up a tone dialer to a rotary dial phone. Where can I get a steady voltage to power the dialer? MAny thanks for all answers. Rich. -- Richard Segal NYU Student, Rev., Looney at Large Big Electric Cat Public UNIX ARPA:SEGAL@ACFCluster.NYU.EDU ..!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!jailbait BITNET:SEGAL@NYUACF.bitnet "Bob", Eris, Norton I, Mal-2, Jailbait. Doesn't it have a nice ring to it?