Cordless Phones II

[NoTrespassing]

UNIDEN is the way to go if you ask me. Digital Spread Spectrum they call it. All I know is that it reaches anywhere on our 10 acres we go and sounds as good as a corded phone. We got 2 handsets for under $100. The C. Crane co. rated it best. www.ccrane.com They've got a lot of cool stuff, especially AM radios.

Kevin

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Hate to admit this but I work for the Phone Company. ATT does not make the phones. It is a licensed product and I believe it is built by Uniden. Kind of like Whirlpool building Sears Stuff, MTD building Cub Cadet stuff.

I have a few of the ATT Products and they work well. But I also have Panasonic and Sony and they work well also.

Every phone used by the ATT "The Bell System" Company used to be built in Indianapolis by Western Electric which was the Bell System's equipment builder and also owned by ATT.

Then came the break up of Ma Bell. Other than one Business Phone System built in Shreveport, everything got farmed out overseas. I am sure that is also gone now.

Long Story Short, Buy It, Try It. If you don't like it take it back. ATT has their name on it. They will stand behind it. They don't want anyone trashing their name. Their Officers are the only ones who can do that and they are real good at it.

Good Luck,

The masked phone guy.

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Bebster,

When you run your underground phone line use that black plastic they use for well water lines and run your wires in that.

Protects the wire real nice and if you run power in the same trench separate the phone and power with some dirt.

Good Luck,

Masked Phone Guy

 

[bebster]

Thanks, never thought of that black pipe as conduit. Is that the same stuff that you use for spinkler systems?

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Not sure.

You can get it in 1/2 inch or 3/4. Big rolls of it. Get 3/4 and when you pull your wire pull a brick mason string along so you can pull another wire later if you like. May need intercom or security wiring down the road. Also, on the phone line, you may have 2 pair or 4 pair wire. Well, you only need 1 pair per phone line so skin and twist the others together and run that to a good ground. This helps eliminate noise like ground hum etc. I don't care what they say, hard wired is better.

 

[dieselsmoke1]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( it reaches anywhere on our 10 acres we go and sounds as good as a corded phone)</font>

10 Acres?? The Bride and I consume these darn things at the rate of about 1 a year, never had one that would get more than 100 ft from the house!

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out!

 

[bebster]

I'm also planning to run Cat 5 computer cabling as well, so that I can have a PC in the barn (to hang out on TBN for example), but share the modem link that comes into the main house. Do you happen to have any experience on how that works at a longer distance?

 

[dieselsmoke1]

Hoosier Daddy, you're a good one for this question.

A friend is about ready to trench his power, phone, cable and gas to his new shop, about 600 ft. He was advised to bury RG6 for his phone and terminate at each end with a block. Is this overkill?

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Then just Run Cat 5. It's a shielded Cable and the inside wires have a certain twist per foot to them that resist interference. If you are using a high speed connection to the net then you can buy a router that has a amp built into it to push the distance. Sounds like you will also be installing coax for the TV out in the barn.

A Bud of mine has that. Big set with surround sound and all.

I stopped by last Friday afternoon and there he set in his Lazy Boy with the TV cranked up watching some re-run race and was half sleeping. It was his day off and he was supposed to be working on the wife's van.

 

[bebster]

You've got some great design ideas! I'll have to rethink the barn, and plan for the sports bar room as well!