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Goran Larsson
 
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Default European Phones and US phones

In article ,
Elmer Bataitis wrote:

Does anyone know or have a refernce to
what is the Euro phone jack (size and specs) and what are the values on
the lines?


As other posters have noted, the phone line connector is different and
the mains power is different. Both of these can be fixed using suitable
adapters/transformers, but you must also make sure that the frequency
band used by the phone is legal to use in Germany and that the phone is
approved for use in Germany (after all, it is a radio transmitter).
Frequencies are allocated for different uses in different countries,
e.g. old 40MHz US analog wireless phones used frequencies in the middle
of a Swedish military frequency band. Swedes buying cheap US analog
wireless phones quickly found out that the military was not amused when
the phones disturbed their equipment.

Problem areas:
* Phone line characteristics. (most likely not a problem)
* Phone line connector. (fixed by an adapter)
* Mains voltage/frequency. (fixed by an 230V/115V transformer)
* Mains connector. (fixed by an adapter)
* Frequency band used by the phone. (most likely wrong and unfixable)
* Approval by the German authorities. (most likely no approval)

Buy something else.

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