[LUNI] [OT] Phones that don't signal off hook.

[bgallia at k9.mw.luc.edu]

  The easiest way is probably a baby monitor.  But they are not well known
for preserving privacy.  You might end up every ham radio/scanner in your
neighborhood also silently screening your calls.  :)

  The other way I can think of is to open up the answering machine and
wire a second speaker in parallel.  Last I saw, places where getting rid
of CAT3 really cheap so you can place the second speaker just about
anyplace you want.

  As to a phone device that can go off hook while ensuring that the
answering machine will not detect it, I would suspect if such a device was
possible it would appear in the fone freakz' library of rainbow boxes.
But neither the 2600 FAQ[1] or a fairly complette list of box plans[2]
list anything like that.

[1] http://www.attrition.org/~voyager/faq014.txt
[2] http://www.ccc.de/Library/HPA/Boxing/

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Thaddeus L. Olczyk wrote:

> Sorry to ask this here. I've asked in several electronics
> newsgroups to no avail. I have a phone in a common room
> and by mutual agreement we all screen our calls. I would
> like a phone in my room that picks up the signal and
> allows me to listen in to the message without signaling
> an off hook so that the answering machine does it's business.
>
> I suspect that there are several people who are good enough
> to recommend something to me ( which is why I ask ). Can anyone help?
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