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Posted by DEFAULT on April 9, 2009, 1:15 am
Hello -
I own an AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine... a base
station and two handsets.
On the recording side of the machine are messages from a passed parent.
It's the only record of my mother's voice in existence. I would very
much like to get it off the machine before something bad happens and it
disappears.
AT&T Telephone has been useless.
There is no jack on the base station. Putting a tape recorder up to the
microphone produces garbage quality audio. The handsets, however, are a
different story. The audio sounds better.
I've tried a Radio Shack pickup coil. No success, not a peep.
There is a headset jack. Picked up a 2.5mm plug, got out the scope, and
turned on the handset, fully expecting to see something looking like
dialtone.
Nothing.
Got out the voltmeter and checked the leads. Oh, there's voltage on
both the microphone and speaker lines. Maybe it needs a real load.
I must be slow or something.. because this information should be out
there somewhere.. but I'm probably typing the wrong keywords into Google.
Does anyone know the resistances of a headset?
Your time is appreciated.
Mark
walkingthrough@No_Spam_Please_yahoo.com
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Posted by JTaylor on April 9, 2009, 10:16 am
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 01:15:42 -0400 (EDT), DEFAULT wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I own an AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine... a base
> station and two handsets.
>
> On the recording side of the machine are messages from a passed parent.
> It's the only record of my mother's voice in existence. I would very
> much like to get it off the machine before something bad happens and it
> disappears.
[Moderator snip]
> There is a headset jack.
Take the cover off, run the output to the speaker through an appropriate
resistor divider pair to get approx 1vpp, run that into whatever recording
device you have.
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Posted by Horn on April 9, 2009, 10:17 am
> Hello -
> I own an AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine... a base
> station and two handsets.
> On the recording side of the machine are messages from a passed
> parent. It's the only record of my mother's voice in existence. I
> would very much like to get it off the machine before something bad
> happens and it disappears.
Um, at risk of being overly simplistic I'd suggest you call your number
from another phone and record it from there.
Or, did I miss something here?
regards,
horn
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Posted by Who Me? on April 9, 2009, 3:19 pm
Horn wrote:
> Um, at risk of being overly simplistic I'd suggest you call your
> number from another phone and record it from there.
> Or, did I miss something here?
A reasonable option...IF....the answering machine has a remote access
function.
I can't help but think that the headset jack would work......if you get the
right plug and connect to the right two wires.
I'd also think that just recording into another device via microphone would
work (with some loss of quality) but experimenting with playback volume and
mic positioning might be required.
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Posted by Reed on April 9, 2009, 11:30 pm
DEFAULT wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I own an AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine... a base
> station and two handsets.
>
> On the recording side of the machine are messages from a passed parent.
> It's the only record of my mother's voice in existence. I would very
> much like to get it off the machine before something bad happens and it
> disappears.
>
> AT&T Telephone has been useless.
>
> There is no jack on the base station. Putting a tape recorder up to the
> microphone produces garbage quality audio. The handsets, however, are a
> different story. The audio sounds better.
>
> I've tried a Radio Shack pickup coil. No success, not a peep.
>
> There is a headset jack. Picked up a 2.5mm plug, got out the scope, and
> turned on the handset, fully expecting to see something looking like
> dialtone.
>
> Nothing.
>
> Got out the voltmeter and checked the leads. Oh, there's voltage on
> both the microphone and speaker lines. Maybe it needs a real load.
>
> I must be slow or something.. because this information should be out
> there somewhere.. but I'm probably typing the wrong keywords into Google.
>
> Does anyone know the resistances of a headset?
>
> Your time is appreciated.
>
> Mark
> walkingthrough@No_Spam_Please_yahoo.com
>
Take a look here and see if any of these adapters might work for you
http://www.dictationwarehouse.com/phonerecordersadaptors.asp
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> I own an AT&T E5862BC cordless telephone answering machine... a base
> station and two handsets.
>
> On the recording side of the machine are messages from a passed parent.
> It's the only record of my mother's voice in existence. I would very
> much like to get it off the machine before something bad happens and it
> disappears.