[mod.telecom] Connecting a phone line to a stereo

Zieres.wbst@XEROX.COM (Gary) (11/18/86)

Can anyone give me a circuit for connecting a phone line to broadcast
over a stereo system?  I only want to use the stereo to amplify and play
over the stereo in a "one way" mode.  I know radio shack has a device
for recording into a tape player (costing over $20, which probably
consists of a 50 cent isolation transformer), but I would like to build
one cheaper.  I think that simply an isolation transformer would work,
but I don't know the ratio (or input impedance).  Any of you telephone
jocks out there that could give me a suggestion?

- Gary

pozar@well.UUCP (Tim Pozar) (11/27/86)

>Can anyone give me a circuit for connecting a phone line to broadcast
>over a stereo system?  

    The circiut can be made very easliy out of two .1uf disk caps, and a 
10k to 600 ohm tranformer.  WARNING!  This circuit is not FCC accepted.  
   Ahem, now that I said that...  Just hook it up to the red and green wires
on the block.  The caps are to block DC to the transformer and prevent the 
Telco equipment from seeing a "off-hook" status.  In order to keep the line 
up, you should put a 1k resistor across the red and green wires.  You could 
even put a switch in series to act like a switch hook.

          .1uf
  Green __| |____    _________\  To consumer level/impeadence 
          | |    )||(         /         audio source
Telco       600  )||(  10K
          .1uf   )||(
    Red __| |____)||(_________\
          | |              |  /
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ihm@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU@minnie.UUCP (12/01/86)

I believe you can bridge a telephone line into the aux input with
reasonable results by connecting T & R to the two leads of the aux input
each through a 10 mf capacitor.  Beware though of the sharp surges in
the input from such things as dial pulses or line hangup/pickup.

Cheerz--
						<>IHM<>