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I have done this a couple times using a KCE FX-207 and the Wheelock TPI-100 which allowed for talk back paging.

KCE

I'm not sure if the TPI-100 is still available but I think Viking makes a page interface also

Since the original poster inquired about a VoIP solution, I was guessing that his set-up was a single POTS line + Internet service (maybe even DSL on that same line).

We really need the o.p. to post some more details for the set-up.

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Doug Fry, can you give us a more detailed account of the set-up and proposed usage for the system?

With some custom programming, the STICK will work.
Turn CNG off and assign your page input to the device. You may set up a access number to dial your page device. Remember the STICK answers first and redirects ringback to the calling party,from there
you can insert your access number to a directed port
to any analog device. (phone modem etc.)

DSL, no problem, just install your adsl filter in series with the STICK CO LINE PORT.

no programing involved , by default out of the box the stick will use *2 or *3 to transfer to the fax or modem port so you can page off either one

so dial the number and the phone rings (hooked to the phone port )

dial the number then *3 takes you to the modem port where you have the page hooked

no reason to turn CNG off

Do you have a link for the STICK? That sounds very promising.

The guy has a pretty small operation with just a single Co line, but he also has DSL. I suggested installing a pbx, but I don't think he wanted to spend quite that much just for the ability to yell at prowlers or to tell his workers not to go home if his foreman was running late.

Ah the joys of trying to help out your friends...

the stick


more info

Back in pre-interconnect days I did a lot of work with Intercoms and PA systems in NYC's Garment Center. One of our biggest sellers was intercom and remote paging between Showrooms and Factories/Warehouses, The showrooms were all on 7th Avenue or Broadway and the Factories/Warehouses were on 8th & 9th Avenues

(This was in the '60s. In the early '70s they moved to 11th & 12 Avenues, in the late '70s they moved across the river to New Jersey, in the '80s they moved down South and in the '90s they moved to China. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.)

Anyway, we would order leased lines from NY Tel to connect the two locations. Both sides would have a multichannel Intercom (some channels local and some remote) and a PA system. If you wanted to talk to someone on the other side, you selected a remote channel and pushed a button on the handset (6 conductor mounting cords) and sent a ground down the leased line. The ground closed a relay which switched the talkpath onto the PA. You would announce: "Harry pick up Joe on the Intercom".We did it like that because the guys in the Warehouse/Factory were rarely at their desks -the system worked fine.

Actually they worked fine until one Monday morning when we came in to find dozens of trouble calls. All our circuits that crossed the (Hudson) river had failed. Turns out NY Tel had converted them from Copper to Carrier. Carrier wouldn't pass a ground. Woops!

You sir, are a life saver. Thank you so much.