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On Sun, 14 Apr 96 15:20:23 GMT, Graham Nye
<graham@tyndale.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Once you have a power supply for the microphone you should get
>plenty of audio signal from it.
There seems some doubt about need for a power supply. I had this
report by Email from a techie Anders Karlsson in Sweden who I hope
won't mind me reproducing it here.

>Here's what I did yesterday:
>I took an old telephone receiver, opened it and ripped out all the
>electronics except for the microphone and earpiece. Then I took an old
>headset with a 3 mm jack and cut off the wires from the actual
>headset. A headset's two wires contains two conduits each, one
>uninsulated and insulated. I twisted the two uninsulated conduits and
>soldered them to one of the microphone's two contacts and I soldered both
>the insulated conduits to the other contact. I used another headset's
>wiring and did the same thing to the earpiece. After this I put the
>telephone receiver back into one piece and connected the 3 mm jacks to
>to my SB Vibra 16's microphone input and speaker output. It works like
>a charm!
>I guess I have to add that the volume in the handset I built was 
>rather loud so I would suggest that you add a resistor with about a 
>1/2 of the earpiece's resistance if you think yours is too loud, but you could 
>always try without it at first, since your and my soundcard might not have the 
>same output power from the speaker output connector.

Is there a newsgroup in which to discuss the internet telephone and
how best to use it- not just hardware but software and tricks to get a
better connection? If not would anyone like to form one?

--
Michael Clements