They used to sell bag phones with an RJ-11 port built in. A customer of mine had a home type answering machine plugged in to his so he didn't have to use our voice mail system.
Benjamin Naber wrote: > I'm curious how they got the auto patches to work with > the cell phones, the wire pin-outs and so on. I do > suppose it wouldn't be such a daunting task if one > figured out for the digital phones that have data > cables with DB-9 connectors. I would like to be > enlightened from someone out there has done it before > for the analog phones. > > The bag phones actually have a lot of useful parts in > them, with just a few modifications, they can be > readily made for 902MHz operation. Before I got > deployed to waste-land Iraq (you can see many pictures > of how trashy the cities are) I was working on one > such myself. Granted they may not be for someone who > has the money it to just go buy a 900MHz machine > because of the time involved, but it is fun to work > with these. > > I'm also working on a project to make a full duplex > and simplex voice operation in the 900MHz amateur > band. One does learn alot when accomplishing such a > task. http://www.qsl.net/n9zia <http://www.qsl.net/n9zia> is such a > site devoted > to things such as these. Very, very informative. > > I've got *several* bag phones and once out of the army > (12 hour days and you wanna come home and just spend > the little time with the family) and have a normal > 10-6 life, I am going to pursue on a large scale > working on the conversions. I'm happy I brought > several of my books over here to learn about this neat > stuff... > > ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ > > ------------------------------------------------- > ~Ben, KB9LFZ > > Got your radio on and "listening?" > Then KEY the radio and and make some noise! > > Keep Amateur Radio Alive - USE IT DAILY!!! > >
