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Thread Number: 80247
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Post# 1042013 , Reply# 2 8/17/2019 at 11:44 (1,714 days old) by wayupnorth  (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 1042016 , Reply# 3 8/17/2019 at 12:19 (1,714 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA) |
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We have rotary phones, Western Electric 500s, in a few of our rooms.
Our service, through Comcast cable, doesn't support pulse dialing, so we have pulse to tone converters that the phones plug into, then the converter plugs into the wall jack. I'd prefer if we could just use the phones as designed, but this is better than not being able to use them at all. Barry | ||
| Post# 1042017 , Reply# 4 8/17/2019 at 12:20 (1,714 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
 I have Spectrum/Time Warner. My 5 pound "I Love Lucy" gossip phone is a no go. It did work when I first moved here.
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Post# 1042032 , Reply# 5 8/17/2019 at 15:41 (1,713 days old) by SudsMaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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I believe that pulse dialing requires electric energy to work. Something like nine volts. That's probably an expense for the phone company that they'd rather not support. I remember some time in the 90's my old rotary phone stopped working. I looked into it and I would have had to specifically request support for for pulse dialing. And that it was an either/or, if rotary was supported, then tone would not be. So I just stored the old rotary phone.
Now I'm using an internet phone (Ooma). Tone only, as I recall. | ||
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Post# 1042038 , Reply# 6 8/17/2019 at 16:12 (1,713 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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I worked for the phone company and yes, it does require a little energy and as long as any switching stations generators worked and big DC batteries held up your dial phone would always work in the days of Ma Bell. When I was a little kid, I got this make believe transistor radio with a cord that clipped on the metal dialing stop on the phone that actually worked as it got that tad of energy to run it thru the phone lines. I dont know how it worked but it did bring in local AM stations thru an earphone.
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Post# 1042040 , Reply# 7 8/17/2019 at 16:38 (1,713 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Post# 1042101 , Reply# 11 8/18/2019 at 11:56 (1,713 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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A friend of mine still has rotary service.. he has to use the pulse to dial out on and then switch to tone to select number choices on a menu driven automated answering system. It's also a party line with no remaining party on his line. LOL. Bell keeps offering him incentives to upgrade to touch tone obviously so they can divest themselves of all the remaining switch equipement but they can't force him.. yet anyways.
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Post# 1042118 , Reply# 12 8/18/2019 at 15:24 (1,712 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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| Post# 1042249 , Reply# 14 8/19/2019 at 18:11 (1,711 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA) | ||
I run an OOMA VOIP here (with ring-through from my cell number). Plugged into the OOMA is my trusty Panasonic PBX that converts any rotary phone to touchtone on the fly, and has the current to drive a load of vintage phones. Bonus is you can call between any phone on the property with 2-digit dialing.
End goal is to get my outdoor phone booth set up along with my 555 switchboard. 'Inter-office' and trunk! | ||
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Post# 1042251 , Reply# 15 8/19/2019 at 18:37 (1,711 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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