On the healing bench today, a #candlestick #telephone - it’s a UK Post Office “Tele 180” made by Plessey in 1927
It’s the oldest phone I own!
It’s a little sorry for itself, with broken wires, paint in the mechanism, a stuck hook switch and slow dial… it’s not in original condition (bits have been overcleaned, or repainted) but I’m not worried about that.
The first move has been to get it all apart for cleaning!
#phone #vintagePhone #vintageTelephone #strowger #telecom #project
Pictures from the recent THG Swapmeet at Milton Keynes! For more photos you can always join the official Telecommunications heritage group on Facebook. Swapmeets are available to paid THG members, join here https://membermojo.co.uk/thg
#vintage #telephones #heritage #strowger #THG #swapmeet #telecoms #GPO #PO #Dials
@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
You know it’s going well if I’ve had to get the diagrams out…
#telephone #phone #vintageTelephone #vintagePhone #strowger #TelephoneExchange
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
Those of you who grew up in #Britain - who can remember this from their childhood and youth? A #dialtone from a Ringing Machine 2A, from the days of analogue #Strowger #Telephone #Exchanges - it was replaced by the same tone as used in USA when #DTMF (tone dialling) replaced loop disconnect, as the harmonics in this tone upset the DTMF tone detectors in the registers..
It's taken me a month, but the final part of my "take a #strowger #telephoneExchange to #emfcamp"" video series is now live!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DikYIWUkSdU
Lessons learned:
- I suck at logistics
- When stuff is in 3 places, the thing I need is somewhere else
- heavy thing is heavy, awkward, but omg fun
- talking that much, next to a rave, drops my voice noticably
- SD cards are garbage
- Having fun means I forget to film stuff
- OMG BASS!
- It was 200% worth the effort!
The #strowger #telephoneExchange is home from #emf2024 and safely wrestled into the shed.
huge thanks to everyone who made that happen… marrold, callum(?), tommy, my husband James and my next door neighbour for logistics support, everyone at @CuTEL snd @phones for their assistance getting it connected to the rest of the network, Oliver at #NullSector for pointing me at the right things, @noc for the network connection… the whole org team who put the event on, and everyone who visited! #amazing!
Had another great evening in #NullSector last night enthusiastically talking to people about my #TelephoneExchange etc
A couple of people helped me to fill in some of the story about the exchanges life at Ffestiniog, and I've updated the website to be a-bit-less-wrong as a result!
Today is the last day I'll be running the exchange at #emfcamp - but I've got stuff to see and do today, so opening hours will be eratic... but...
if you want to play with a #strowger switch, come find me! #emf2024
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