Thanks - I'd forgotten about recorder taps. Seems like we have one of those around here somewhere... Next trick (but more easily solved) - need either a M-to-F gender changer or a 1/8 F-to-RCA plug. I seem to have a drawer full of the M-to-RCA (things like this keep Radio Shack going!)...
Thanks again... -- RMc "Sean Rector" <[email protected]> wrote on 11/17/2009 07:53:33 AM: > I found this on Google: > > http://www.google.com/products/catalog? > sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4EGLC_enUS345US346&q=RJ-9&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=795370652766964975&ei=PaoCS7XqMdSlnQeGxIVq&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=image&resnum=5&ved=0CBgQ8gIwBA# > > I?m not 100% sure it?ll do what you want, but its description makes > me think that it will. > > Sean Rector, MCSE > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:40 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: OT: RJ-9 to mic/speaker jacks? > > > Greetings! > > We have a big multi-location video conference coming (in two weeks > interrupted by a 4-day holiday weekend). Unfortunately, as some > locations are unable to access the video conferencing group, it > seems we must use WebEx. With WebEx connections, audio for all > requires all attendees call into the WebEx bridge. (We hope to find > an alternative to WebEx once our contract is over!) > > Our phone system is a VoIP system from Interactive Intelligence > (ININ). We have 3 ways of doing phone calls (and why I'm having problems.) > > 1. We have a Polycom analog conferencing "phone" with two extension > microphones. However, the conference room is too small to hold all > the local people we expect to be present. Attendees must be in our > larger "class room". The Polycom analog devices is pretty much > nailed to our conference room table and cannot be moved elsewhere > without doing quite a bit of damage to the table, etc. Furthermore, > the volume level is inadequate for that sized room. (NOTE: the > analog device is not a part of the ININ VoIP system but rather a > separate POTS line.) > > 2. There is a laptop in the conference room for presentations. We > have installed a "SIP soft phone" on it. However, the soft phone > application does not handle QoS. The docs say to use specific USB > headsets which do handle QoS (they have tested and recommend some > from Jabra and Plantronics). We have tried plugging the PA system > directly into the headset port of the laptop. We have also come > across a Sony USB headset. This headset has the mic and ear phones > plug into a little adaptor which in turn plugs into the USB port. > However, since neither this headset nor the laptop's earphone jack > handles QoS, there is a serious echo problem. If we were to use > this setup in a conference, ALL the remote attendess would hear an > echo of themselves (and presumably anyone else speaking) about a > second after anything is said. (NOTE: the echo occurs even in the > complete absence of a microphone here.) > > 3. We could set up a VoIP workstation with one of our Polycom 430 > VoIP phones. However, the speaker phone volume is again too low. > This (finally, and sorry for the length) finally gets us to the > subject line... > > The Polycom 430 VoIP phones have no sound I/O ports except for the > two RJ-9 jacks for the hand set and for a head set. Might anyone > know of a gizmo that has an RJ-9 jack on one end and jacks to plug > in a microphone and a speaker "plug"? Having a "speaker jack" would > enable us to send the sound through the PA system in the large room. > (I fear the alternative would be to have a PA microphone sitting > next to the speaker phone.) > > Thanks! > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > > ASPCA® > 1717 S. 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