RF link for POTS line

[speedway_navigator]

A friend has a Green Acres phone line, it's on a post (at least it's at ground level) on the road about a mile from his cabin in the land of Nell and Dudley Doright.
Last time I did something like this was a demo for ESPN at summer X games in 2003, I can't remember what I used for the telco to IP to send over a Canopy link.
I remember having to set FXO an FXS but that's it, nothing in my notes and this was way before phones with cameras to document stuff.

any ideas?

 

[mmckenna]

Are you looking for a:

POTS/FXO (at the pole) to Ethernet <wireless IP link> Ethernet to FXS/POTS phone (at the cabin) converter?

That's simple enough to do. Just need power at the pole end, haven't seen any that will run off -48v line voltage.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

There is a company in Northern California called Carlson Wireless that made a complete solution for this. Also the RITRON Responder was an end to end solution. Zetron also made the FXS POTs terminals to which you coukd add your own radios. For a short link some RITRON DTX radios and duplexers could serve. Also Engenius makes a long range 900 MHz cordless phone that is for commercial use.

 

[mmckenna]

There is a company in Northern California called Carlson Wireless that made a complete solution for this.

I came real close to buying some of their Trailblazer products for a project at work. Got cancelled at the last minute. They were (at that time) a real easy company to work with. Was always disappointed I never got to follow through with that.

 

[AM909]

A friend has a Green Acres phone line, it's on a post (at least it's at ground level) ...

For those who didn't get the reference:

https://www.facebook.com/greenacresfans/photos/a.1684995858429121/1718519438410096

 

[prcguy]

In the early 90s I installed a bunch of VHF phone links made by this company, although their products are much different now. solutions

 

[Firebuff880]

Wow page last updated 2009....

Wireless Rural Telephony - Radio Telephones for Voice, Fax, Data and Internet - Telemobile Inc.

 

[prcguy]

Maybe they went out of business. Probably competition with cell modems, etc.

Wow page last updated 2009....

Wireless Rural Telephony - Radio Telephones for Voice, Fax, Data and Internet - Telemobile Inc.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

The IP side of me would say use a Grandstream HT-813(? whichever is the FXO) and transport it with a simple 802.11 based point to point link. Once you got it there the HT-812 may be able to just be configured as a passthrough or build a Raspberry Pi 2 or newer running FreePBX with and use SIP phones (FXO configuration is a little strange but I had it running here at the house once upon a time).

 

[kf4lhp]

Audio, FXS, FXO, or E&M to Serial or Ethernet Converter

Analog Voioce Adapter, FXS, FXO, or E&M to synchronous serial, FXS, FXO, or E&M to asynchronous

www.dcbnet.com

These work great - and super-simple configuration.

 

[speedway_navigator]

Grandstream sounds like it, thanks for all the replies.
Since Terry's cabin is in Canada their licensing will be different if their version of part 15 isn't an option.

I see Telemobile will send a CD catalog upon request.

 

[techman210]

Telemobile is the old Pace CB/Pathcom company. Someone I knew did some consulting for them back when their website was current. Never got paid.

Too many red flags for me to even get a quote.

 

[speedway_navigator]

All the links I tried are bad

 

[prcguy]

Would that have been Gene that didn't get paid? The old owner of Pace and Telemobile (Bill Thomas) was a real shyster and crook. Not only would Bill not pay some people, if they brought in their own test equipment for doing some design work Bill would keep it and use it on the production line. The man was a real piece of sh*t.

Telemobile is the old Pace CB/Pathcom company. Someone I knew did some consulting for them back when their website was current. Never got paid.

Too many red flags for me to even get a quote.

 

[techman210]

Would that have been Gene that didn't get paid? The old owner of Pace and Telemobile (Bill Thomas) was a real shyster and crook. Not only would Bill not pay some people, if they brought in their own test equipment for doing some design work Bill would keep it and use it on the production line. The man was a real piece of sh*t.

No, it was someone else.

He turned around and contacted the potential customer that Telemobile was trying to do business with and outlined their unprofessionalism- likely killed the project.

Karma, beaches