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Article #65Re: Adapting standard phone handset for Freephone use?
From: Frank Erskine
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <1fT2sCAktsbxEwDR@g3wte.demon.co.uk>, Frank Erskine <frank@g3wte.demon.co.uk> writes >In article <829334769.18402@lodcomp.demon.co.uk>, Luke Jackson ><luke@lodcomp.demon.co.uk> writes >>Michael@zoec.demon.co.uk (Michael Clements) wrote: >> >>>Are there any techies who can say whether it is possible to use or >>>modify a standard UK telephone handset (not a mobile phone but the >>>plastic part you hold listen and talk into) on a conventional phone to >>>work with my Soundblaster 16 soundboard to replace the microphone & >>>speakers normally used when making internet phone contact. >> Following up my last one - there IS another problem with a using a telephone handset - the microphone needs a current source (around 30mA) to energise it, because it's a carbon or amplified electret type...no doubt someone will have ideas on how to do that simply! -- Frank Erskine Sunderland
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