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#6654 07/13/05 01:35 AM
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If you can find them at a Army Surplus, the cheapest and easiest to use is a couple of the Army's field phones (TA-312). No other equipment is needed. You have one at each end with 2 D cell batteries in each. The handset is "push to talk". And to call the other station, you turn the crank on the side, which sends ringing voltage down the line.

Here's what they look like:
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The way we did this in the past is with
a -48 DC power plant, Lorraine comes to mind. We used this on the talk pair testing long haul fiber. This might work on 19 gauge.

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Pull the battery out of your truck and put it in series in the ckt. The worst that could happen is you drain the battery and are stuck there.

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I once "rescued" an old manual set from an abandoned railroad line 'way out in the swamps. There was a battery box with it that held two 6 volt lantern batteries.

Bear in mind, current, rather than voltage is what makes phones happy, so if you can get around 20 milliamps at the far end, you'll be fine.

I'd say, get a couple of those lantern batteries, connect them either in series or parallel, and see what works.

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If you connect two buttsets in series with a 48V battery you can talk if both buttsets are in talk. If ether buttset is in monitor the other buttset cannot generate voice. With both buttsets left in talk the battery will run down. If you connect two buttsets in parallel with one battery at one end the buttset on the same end as the battery will have all of the line current and the buttset on the far end cannot be herd. You will need an inductor in series with the battery to keep the voice signal from shunting out thru the battery. If you have two batteries with inductors one on each end then each buttset can be heard. Leave the buttsets in monitor when not talking and the batteries will last longer. This circuit has no signaling. The Viking DLE-200B Ringdown circuit provides signaling but spec says it will only work up to 2.6 miles on 24AWG. This would be about 10 miles on 19AWG. There you have it.

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On behalf of the USAF, thanks for the advise. You'd think being in the military, we'd have some old field phones around and know how to do this, but everyone has gone radio and sat. We also thought about going to a surplus and buying some, but that just didn’t seam right, buying them back! Based on the posts, we've set up a test line with about 4k resistance and have tried everything from 9 volt battery to a 48 volt power supply. As one might assume, as the voltage goes up, so did our volume. I suspect it was more a function of the amount of current. It was the best at 48 volts. I found an article that indicated as long as you have 20mamp, you can communicate. We will have one chance to test on the real lines before we have to use this solution and any other thoughts you all have would be appreciated!
Thanks again,
Mark


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Mark, If you have two pairs then you can connect the transmitter of one handset to the reciever of another handset in series with a powersupply.

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In the old days of cow pastures, installers would talk over barbed wire; conect one lead to the wire and stick the other one into the ground, no power source needed.


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Mark, most of the responses have been from ex-military guys. What these boys learned was before the "techo" age. Look up an old master sgt. in your area. I'm sure there's a few around and your command sergeant major might help in this area. The old boys might like to help! Considering I'm a card carrying retiree, I,m always on call! [Linked Image from sundance-communications.com]

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you could try what we call the parkway test set.. i belive the model number is pl-259. it is a tone generation set, a test set.. and it also has a talk circuit that runs off of 9vdc..

many splice and cable installation techs use this to communicate thru manholes while splicing.. you can run tone and talk at the same time..

you can attach a standard butt set (but it has to be a modern one with dual speaker phone setup) or you can use a headset with microphone..

not sure where you'll find one on the open market.. but they work great in the field for our techs..

depending on your wire guage you should be fine on the basic 9vdc..

the only thing you might want in addition is a separate circuit to run a buzzer as this system does not ring from one end to the other.. ..

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