@ety my shenanigans are mostly on much older kit than your average home lab phone setup (#electromechanical #strowger!)
My preference for phone kit is “massive, heavy, and maintained with a spanner” 😂
I just throw a ton of tags at it (usually as many relevant ones as I can fit in the post) #TelephoneExchange #phoneExchange #pbx #vintagePhone are probably my most commonly used.
I’ve been hanging out with @CuTEL a bit over the last couple of years, so I also have some more modern #voip & #dect
Is anyone able to lay their hands on a firmware image for a Samsung Ubigate IBG1004?
It’s an #isdn to #sip #telephone gateway, and the one I’ve got seems to be corrupt and won’t decompress.
My usual haunts for firmware images are coming up blank.
The filename will be something like `iBG1004_Advanced_1.6.1.9.Z` - but I'm really not too fussy about the version number!
Please boost if you think you have followers that can help!
Ok #vintageElectronics nerds! tell me about these things…
The “MR” designation denotes some kind of diode (it stands for Metal Rectifier, a notation hangover from before silicon/germanium diodes) and they’re obviously arranged as full bridge rectifiers
They’re in a PSU made for the British Post Office in 1972
The brown stripe seems to denote the + end, but what does the other stripe mean?
#Electronics #TelephoneExchange #Telephone #phone #phoneExchange #strowger #hamRadio #AmateurRadio
The (extensive) phone system in my house is reachable from the outside world, but I don't like anyone phoning me overnight.
So I've made all the inbound routes time-of-day aware and they now play this message if you phone them overnight
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I0gfkRpPchc
#asterisk #phones #telephones #voip #phoneExchange #telephoneExchange
My #strowger #PhoneExchange installation for #emf2024 is as fully working as it’s going to get… so out come the packing crates!
I’ve got 48hrs to pack it all up before the van arrives…
Packing Progress:
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I've made another video about getting the #strowger #TelephoneExchange ready for me to take it to #emf2024
In this episode, I try and get the tie lines working...
Oh, and what's that? There's now a website with more information about the #phoneExchange and a blog and everything?
https://emf.lpbk.net/blog/posts/2024-05-05/
The site is a work in progress, and will change a /lot/ in the run up to the event.
RSS feeds are on the todo list, but I've got a phone exchange to fix first!
found an annoying fault on the #strowger #phoneExchange - see that little pin just hanging out there at a jaunty angle nestled amongst the contact springs?
It’s a lifting pin for the contacts at the top of the pile, it’s supposed to be straight, and attached to one of the contacts.
Instead, it’s not lifting anything and is wiggling around connecting things that shouldn’t be connected.
I guess now I get the fiddly job of replacing the stack of contacts without breaking any 70 year old wires!
If I’m going to run a #stowger #telephoneExchange at #emf2024 I need to be able to connect phones to it…
I’ve now done two of those RJ21s (terminated by hand with a screwdriver) then terminated on the 5 krone strips at the top of this boxconn, then the 4 x RJ45 sockets are terminated on the bottom 2 strips.
Two of the RJ45s will go to a Cisco 1760 fitted with 4-FXO/4-FXS ports, that will connect to the rest of the phones at #emf2024
The other two RJ45s will go to 8 demo #phones for people to play with!
One step closer to having the #strowger #phoneExchange ready to go camping!
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