[Noisebridge-discuss] Pulse-dialing payphone and Payphone T-key

Mitch Altman maltman23 at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 14 14:42:38 UTC 2010


Yay!  Good going.  :)
 
Mitch.
 

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> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:24:45 -0800
> From: jof at thejof.com
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Pulse-dialing payphone and Payphone T-key
> 
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> > There's a beautiful old pulse-dialing payphone here at 2169. Since it
> > seems that none of the ATAs here support detecting pulse dialing as
> > signalling I bought a pulse dialing-to-DTMF adaptor to make use of it.
> >
> > Sadly... it doesn't seem to ring (just like the red phone). I'd like
> > to pop into it and check out the ringer to see that there's nothing
> > broken, though admittedly I've never seen a phone like this out in the
> > wild (or ringing at that), so maybe this is from an era when payphones
> > didn't have ringers?
> >
> > A long time ago I brought in a T-key for opening payphone chassis, but
> > I can't find it anymore (I haven't laid eyes on it since 83C). Does
> > anyone know where it might be or have one that I could borrow?
> 
> So, actually I got it all to work without a T-key. Mike Kan had a
> great idea for using a tool hook as a level to actuate the T-key
> mechanism in the phone. You can kinda jam it in like this:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejof/5173799312/in/photostream/
> 
> So I got to the guts (
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejof/5173194809/in/photostream/ ) and
> found that the phone line was just screwed down to the wrong terminal
> block. I moved it to the right one, and now the ringer works!
> 
> So I set it up on the phone shelf (
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejof/5173194085/in/photostream/ ) and
> set it up in asterisk (extension 2999, "payphone1"). It's also in a
> little hunt group now so that when you call noisebridge, it rings the
> Cisco IP phone and then the payphone.
> 
> Now if I can just get the RS-232 dongles for that acoustic coupler
> sitting next to it and we'll be cooking with gas!
> 
> Cheers,
> jof
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