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Intercom / phone with LOUD ring Bob G. 07-27-2005
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Posted by Bob G. on July 27, 2005, 12:44 pm


my local phone company discontinued their intercom feature that
allowed my wife to call me in the shop using our phone ... So I need
to find another method for her to call me...

I am retired and spend hours in the shop and most of the time I have
some machine running and can not hear anything... To fix that I
placed 4 Radio Shack Strobe lights on the walls of the shop which
flashed when the phone rang... That worked...

My cell phone also works but to be honest I always forget to stick in
in my pocket when I go down to the shop...

Family Radio work BUT I can never hear them'..
Old regular intercom never worked before since ...you guessed it I
could not hear her calling)

Any suggestions....I really like to be on time when dinner is ready

Bob G.


Posted by ~^Johnny^~ on July 27, 2005, 10:53 am


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>my local phone company discontinued their intercom feature that
>allowed my wife to call me in the shop using our phone ... So I
>need to find another method for her to call me...
>
>I am retired and spend hours in the shop and most of the time I have
>some machine running and can not hear anything... To fix that I
>placed 4 Radio Shack Strobe lights on the walls of the shop which
>flashed when the phone rang... That worked...
>
>My cell phone also works but to be honest I always forget to stick
>in in my pocket when I go down to the shop...
>
>Family Radio work BUT I can never hear them'..
>Old regular intercom never worked before since ...you guessed it I
>could not hear her calling)
>
>Any suggestions....I really like to be on time when dinner is ready
>
>Bob G.


I once rigged a smoke alarm beeper across a phone line; it was quite
effective.


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-john
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Posted by Jim Tiberio on July 27, 2005, 2:00 pm



> my local phone company discontinued their intercom feature that
> allowed my wife to call me in the shop using our phone ... So I need
> to find another method for her to call me...
>
> I am retired and spend hours in the shop and most of the time I have
> some machine running and can not hear anything... To fix that I
> placed 4 Radio Shack Strobe lights on the walls of the shop which
> flashed when the phone rang... That worked...
>
> My cell phone also works but to be honest I always forget to stick in
> in my pocket when I go down to the shop...
>
> Family Radio work BUT I can never hear them'..
> Old regular intercom never worked before since ...you guessed it I
> could not hear her calling)
>
> Any suggestions....I really like to be on time when dinner is ready
>
> Bob G.

Lot's of companies make phones with an intercom system, Radio Shack has one
with up to eight handsets.




Posted by Philip Lewis on July 27, 2005, 2:50 pm


You could get an X10 relay module to switch on the strobes for you.

(Or appliance or lamp)

You could get by with one of the starter kits that have a transmitter,
receiver, and lamp module... under $50 i think.

Once your wife flashes you :) you can pick up the phone to see what
she needs. (hit a single key like you are going to dial a number to
turn off the dial tone for the few seconds before it times out)

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Posted by Philip Lewis on July 27, 2005, 2:53 pm


oh...
another option is to rig up a "ringer" circuit and use the other pair
of phone lines you likely have available.

Various theater sites have the circuity you need.

A third option: see if you have a "ringback" number for your area.

We used to be able to dial 998-xxxx (where xxxx = last 4 digits of our
number) hang up, pick up, then hang up. After the second hangup, it
would ring our line.

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