Ok... I am not a telephone guy... I was born after rotary phones, so forgive my ignorance in this matter. I am trying to get a really old rotary phone up and running with an ATA. Why? Who knows... just thought it would be cool. The problem is that it does not have an RJ11 connector, instead it has three wires (green,yellow,red). Does anyone know what that type of connector is called? Or know of a reference to build an adapter to 2 line? Thanks, Sean
Yellow=ground - not used Green = tip Red = ring connect green/red to rj pins 4/5 You could pick up a quarter mod line cord (mod to spade) and replace the cord, or use a screw terminal block to connect to line. Enjoy On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Sean Cook wrote:> Ok... I am not a telephone guy... I was born after rotary phones, > so forgive my ignorance in this matter. I am trying to get a > really old rotary phone up and running with an ATA. Why? Who > knows... just thought it would be cool. The problem is that it does > not have an RJ11 connector, instead it has three wires > (green,yellow,red). Does anyone know what that type of connector > is called? Or know of a reference to build an adapter to 2 line? > > Thanks, > > Sean > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Red and Green are the Tip and Ring. Yellow may have to be strapped to one or the other depending on the phone you have. Some phones may not ring at all, due to special frequency ringers installed in them for party lines. Western Electric did not use these. As to the ATA, MOST ATA's do not support pulse dial, though the IAXy does. Asterisk does in the TDM400, though the decoding code requires some modification for dial speed variance. There are a group of telephone switch collectors that use Asterisk as a tandem switch to interconnect old ( very old to you ) switches through the Internet, so what you want to do really isn't that strange. John Novack Sean Cook wrote:> Ok... I am not a telephone guy... I was born after rotary phones, so > forgive my ignorance in this matter. I am trying to get a really old > rotary phone up and running with an ATA. Why? Who knows... just > thought it would be cool. The problem is that it does not have an RJ11 > connector, instead it has three wires (green,yellow,red). Does anyone > know what that type of connector is called? Or know of a reference to > build an adapter to 2 line? > > Thanks, > > Sean > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >
Jerry Jones wrote:> Yellow=ground - not used > Green = tip > Red = ring > > connect green/red to rj pins 4/5 > > You could pick up a quarter mod line cord (mod to spade) and replace > the cord, or use a screw terminal block to connect to line. > > Enjoy >This worked perfectly! Thank you! Sean