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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 920
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 9:28 pm: | 
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Hey everybody. I still have a phone patch that I used on my CB base set up back in 70's while living in Colorado. Did any of you ever use a phone patch? I could still use this, except that not everyone uses a "home phone" anymore so it would be hard to do with a cell phone for sure.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 958
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2013 - 7:18 pm: |
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Lets bring this back up again. Noone responded the first time a few years ago.
I cannot believe that I am the only one who ever used one  . Thanks.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Scrapiron63
Advanced Member
Username: Scrapiron63
Post Number: 914
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2013 - 4:43 pm: |
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I had one on a Yaesu 101B way back there in the late 1970's. I did use it a few times. Can't remember for sure how it worked now but seems like the radio operator had to switch the conversation back and forth.
Scrapiron
CEF 108 |
Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1645
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2013 - 5:40 pm: |
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keith - I made my first one before they were legal in Australi, but then I was working for teh phone company at the time
Tech237
N7AUS
God made me an athiest, who are you to question his wisdom?
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Ironmike
Member
Username: Ironmike
Post Number: 69
Registered: 6-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 - 7:08 am: |
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Easy... just use a USB/FXO/FXS interface like a Gigaset One, or use a Voip trunk terminated with a SPA-3102 or PAP-2T into your phone patch. No worries. |
Tech833
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Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2240
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:49 am: |
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I have the Kenwood patch and it does require the OP be present.
Back in the pre-cellphone days, and during the big CB boom, they were pretty neat. These days, I cannot imagine a good use for one. I especially cannot imagine someone today on the other end of a radio phone-patch call using proper form and waiting for the radio op to be completely finished before speaking.
People on cell phones today never shut up long enough for someone on the other end to speak, let alone waiting for a radio op on a simplex circuit to finish.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1648
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 10:36 am: |
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Last time I used a phone patch (we have on built into our local 2m repeater) was to call 911 when I could not get a cell signal.
My first words when they answered were "I am patched in via a radio, and if I am talking I cannot hear you".
Tech237
N7AUS
God made me an athiest, who are you to question his wisdom?
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Scrapiron63
Advanced Member
Username: Scrapiron63
Post Number: 915
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 11:11 am: |
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Yeah you needed to use "over" on the old phone patches when you were ready for the other party to speak. It wouldn't be a bad idea for cellphones. I might start doing that, people will think I'm completely crazy, not just partial. lol
But really it would save a lot of time in not having to repeat stuff because you were both taking. |
Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 960
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 9:46 pm: |
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That is a GREAT idea!! I think I will start using that tomorrow for sure.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 627
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013 - 8:37 pm: |
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The MARS station in the ARMY, used them in the 60's in VIETNAM.
We used them in the mid 80's in GERMANY at the AIRBASE for patches..those were the days.
REVPO
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REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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