2 Cordless Phones - Intercom between handsets - is it possible?
Derek Salt
intercom between the handset and base. I want to purchase another
cordless phone to be connected to the same incoming line at a
different location in the house. At present the make and type of
the new phone have not been decided. One of the reasons for this
is to use them as an intercoms. Does anyone know, please, if it is
possible to use the intercom for :-
a) Phone 1 base to phone 2 base
or
b) Phone one base to phone 2 handset
or
c) Phone 1 handset to phone 2 handset
or
d) Phone 1 handset to phone 2 base
Thanks
Derek Salt
Tracy
Hope this helps - we've got a Freestyle 520, and you can buy extra handsets
to work on the same base unit.
So we can intercom base to either handset, or either handset to base, but
I'd have to find the manual to find out if, and how, you can intercom
handset to handset. Let me know if you're interested, and I'll try and dig
it out.
IIRC we got the extra handset from Argos - can't remember how much !
Tracy
Peter Parry
<derek...@spon99.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>One of the reasons for this
>is to use them as an intercoms. Does anyone know, please, if it is
>possible to use the intercom for :-
>
>a) Phone 1 base to phone 2 base
Not without using your own PABX. The bases have no method of
communicating with each other.
>b) Phone one base to phone 2 handset
DECT phones can be registered with multiple bases and usually have a
phone-phone intercom facility. The BT Freestyle 100 is an analogue
phone and these have only a very few channels available. Some can be
manually to a common frequency but many now auto seek unused channels
and will therefore always avoid each other! I'm not sure which type
the Freestyle 100 is, if it has a channel select switch underneath
somewhere it is manual but many modern phones are automatic so you
would need to find a manual selectable one. Even so there is no
guarantee it would work because some analogue phones have a more
secure authentication facility to prevent the trick of people driving
around with a handset, waiting until they picked up a dialling tone
and then calling overseas! On some this prevents dialling, on others
it prevents the phone using the base.
>c) Phone 1 handset to phone 2 handset
Not possible. The phones use two widely differing frequencies, one
to transmit and one to receive. The base uses the opposite pair so
the phone transmits on freq A and receives on freq B. The base
transmits on freq B and receives on freq A. Two phones can never
talk to each other directly as both transmit on A and receive on B.
>d) Phone 1 handset to phone 2 base
See above.
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Nigel Kendrick
NK
Derek Salt wrote:
>
> I currently have a BT Freestyle 100 cordless phone which has an
> intercom between the handset and base. I want to purchase another
> cordless phone to be connected to the same incoming line at a
> different location in the house. At present the make and type of
> the new phone have not been decided. One of the reasons for this
> is to use them as an intercoms. Does anyone know, please, if it is
> possible to use the intercom for :-
>
> a) Phone 1 base to phone 2 base
> or
> b) Phone one base to phone 2 handset
> or
> c) Phone 1 handset to phone 2 handset
> or
> d) Phone 1 handset to phone 2 base
>
> Thanks
> Derek Salt
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Ian White
>DECT phones can be registered with multiple bases and usually have a
>phone-phone intercom facility.
If a handset is registered with multiple bases, is it quick and easy to
switch between bases? I'm thinking of the situation where you have two
phone lines and two bases, but the one that rings doesn't have its
handset close by.
Ian White
Abingdon, England
Nigel Kendrick
NK
Ian White wrote:
> If a handset is registered with multiple bases, is it quick and easy to
> switch between bases? I'm thinking of the situation where you have two
> phone lines and two bases, but the one that rings doesn't have its
> handset close by.
>
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Dave Liquorice
> If a handset is registered with multiple bases, is it quick and easy to
> switch between bases?
Donno I suspect it varies from model to model. Some probably requiring a
degree in astro physics others a press of Shift 2.
> I'm thinking of the situation where you have two phone lines and two
> bases, but the one that rings doesn't have its handset close by.
See if you can get hold of a second hand "Rabbit" system. This allows just
what you want, any handset can answer ringing base it is registered with.
Display tells you which base is ringing.
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Tony Mudd
>I currently have a BT Freestyle 100 cordless phone which has an
>intercom between the handset and base. I want to purchase another
>cordless phone to be connected to the same incoming line at a
>different location in the house. At present the make and type of
>the new phone have not been decided. One of the reasons for this
>is to use them as an intercoms. Does anyone know, please, if it is
>possible to use the intercom for :-
I can't think of a nice way of doing this with your existing phone,
but you could do it with DECT ones.
You want both cordless phones on the same line, which means you only
need one base and 2 handsets (& when you buy a base it will come with
one handset).
Either phone can answer the line, make outgoing etc, you can make
internal calls, but the odd thing is transfer/conference, you have to
push odd buttons on our setup, whereas on normal phones, the 2nd
person just takes it off-hook and the first person just hangs up.
Hope this helps,
Tony.
Chris Melluish
>Peter Parry wrote:
>>DECT phones can be registered with multiple bases and usually have a
>>phone-phone intercom facility.
It is only possible to make internal calls between handsets
working via the same base station. You can register a handset
with several base stations but then you either select one for
each handset to use or you just say use the one with the
strongest signal.
>
>If a handset is registered with multiple bases, is it quick and easy to
>switch between bases? I'm thinking of the situation where you have two
>phone lines and two bases, but the one that rings doesn't have its
>handset close by.
On the Diverse 200 executive handset you need to go into one of
the menu options to select the base sation number, which takes
a few seconds. With the non-executive handset you need to
enter store, int, base station number twice, store - not easy to
remember.
There is a diverse two line phone, but it is very expensive.
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Ian White
>>If a handset is registered with multiple bases, is it quick and easy to
>>switch between bases? I'm thinking of the situation where you have two
>>phone lines and two bases, but the one that rings doesn't have its
>>handset close by.
>
>On the Diverse 200 executive handset you need to go into one of
>the menu options to select the base sation number, which takes
>a few seconds. With the non-executive handset you need to
>enter store, int, base station number twice, store - not easy to
>remember.
>
>There is a diverse two line phone, but it is very expensive.
Thanks - that's just the information I needed. I'll stay hard-wired.
Ian White
Abingdon, England