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- From: bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Recording from/playing onto phone line
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:42:55 -0500
- Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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- Mike Diack <mike-d@staff.tc.umn.edu> writes:
- >Bill Jaeger, jaegerwl@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu writes:
- >>At my university's cable TV station we're working on putting together
- >>a program that involves a viewer call-in.
- >>
- >What you need here is a Hybrid.
- >This consists of a pair of transformers
- >each having a single primary and a split secondary, cross wired to
-
- >PS you may need a resistor to hold the phone "off hook" depends on
- >your setup.
-
- Good suggestions. Also, keep in mind that you want to block
- the phone line's DC from flowing in the core of the transformers
- with capacitors; that would lead to saturation distortion and
- make the sound worse than it has to be.
-
- Experiment with values between 0.05uF and 1.0uF. Depending on
- your setup, you might want to minimize the amount of low
- frequencies you pull off the phone line so that you don't
- drive your limiter crazy and end up with cruddy sound and
- pumping of the compressor, if you use one. For an otherwise
- high-grade outfit, C-SPAN's phone line audio is awful, for example.
- It can be done right.
-
- For a holding bridge to keep the phone line busy (off-hook)
- you can use something as simple as a 1K-1.5K resistor, depending
- on your distance from the central office. Farther distance =
- greater wire resistance = less holding resistance.
-
- If you want to get really fancy, you can design a solid-state
- current sink, but that sounds a lot fancier than what you want.
-
-
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