Terry Pinnell wrote in message
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"n cook" wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote in message
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This is about communications between house and shed/workshop.
Important stuff, like being called in for dinner. For some years I've
had a one-way gadget that sounds a tone in the shed when either a
certain light switch in the house or the front doorbell is pressed.
But I'd like to be able to *acknowledge* that, by pressing a button
which would sound a tone in the house.

To avoid the hassle of wiring or more expensive solutions, I thought
I'd simply utilise the Paging function on the downstairs cordless
phone, a Samsung SP-R5100. But I'd forgotten how ancient it is.
Handsets are no longer available, even at DigiUK who sell some old
stuff. And none on ebay UK.

Under 'Intercom Between Handsets' in the user guide, not surprisingly
I read "This feature is available only when you have more than one
handset." But I wonder how hard it would be to rig up something
primitive? Any radio/wireless/mobile experts here able to offer any
suggestions please?

Or, by some fluke, anyone in UK reading this who has a spare handset
gathering dust...?

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK


If you have mains supply to the workshop why not a simple plug into the
mains intercom at either end. I've probably a set of 2 or 3 somewhere.

Yep, thanks, reasonable solution, and I may end up with that. Has the
advantage of speech! (Hmm - for shed communications, maybe that's a
disadvantage?) But ideally I'd like to avoid finding room to stand or
mount the units, and minimise expense. At present my gadget occupies
zero extra space in house, and in shed one small case mounted up in
ceiling corner, with my simple receiving circuit. (Power supply from
one of the several already in place.) Quick look beforehand at Maplin
found a pair at about £32UKP, inc VAT and delivery. What price are
yours?

That's an interesting stock you have! You're not by any chance the
same guy I used to buy bits and pieces from somewhere in South London
about 25 years ago are you? I recall there was room in there for just
him and one customer at a time. Rest of space occupied by Stuff g.

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

I'll try and find them first , the problem is there may be 3 units rather
than 2 but 12 squid plus p&p if 3 units, 9 squid if 2