benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) (04/30/89)
I recently purchased a $2.00 telephone pickup (suction cup type - stick it on back of the handset) and discovered that it refused to take audio signals. I hooked it up to a small portable amplifier. Through trial and error, I found that it seemed to react to appliances. How do these things work ? Please post answers as mail has a habit of bouncing off me. -- /| This is my sig. I must learn its parts like I know myself. \'o.O' Steven Spielberg presents the Last Temptation of Schwartzeneggar! =(___)= "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, but I will use my U rocket launcher." -=<<[[******BOOM******]]>>- +>----> WOOSH!
wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) (05/02/89)
In article <3412@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes: > I recently purchased a $2.00 telephone pickup and discovered that it > refused to take audio signals. How do these things work ? They are just a coil of wire. The idea is that they get placed next to the electromagnet in the earpiece of the handset and get a voltage induced into them. However, in recent years, the phones have been using a more shielded speaker, so not enough magnetism leaks out to be picked up. This is also a problem for people with hearing aids with inductive telephone pickups. You could try locating an older style earpiece to use in your handset. You could try getting an older one from the phone company -- they have them around for people who have the above-mentioned hearing aids. -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043