Raison d'État18d agoI own a few ex-Soviet TA-57 landline field telephones. Those things just don't break down, they were designed to survive as long as possible in a thermonuclear end of the world.
Going to install them in my farm sheds, where there's no mobile reception, mostly for household / intercom use.
What else could / should I wire / switchboard into the same analog voice circuit, and why?
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Troy18d agoSatellite sounds/morse? Music-clip emojis? Ragtime? A feed from a microphone far away in a field? None of these seem good, yet, I want them all.
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Raison d'État18d agoMicrophone far away has potential, hmmm. Maybe the stream. Useless, but pleasant.
I thought about a CB radio, but it would need to be switchboarded, and then why not use it directly?
Also planning to install a cellular module with external antenna on a RPi for internet, could wire the cellular module's analog voice to the telephone line as part of that. But if I have internet, people can just message/email me if calls aren't going through.…
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