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[Lee Sisney]

Hi everyone.  Our church is in need of a small clear-com (or similar) system.  We need a base station and three individual stations or beltpacks (we will use them stationary not beltworn).  Also, we don't need headsets as we will be using handsets at each station.  Basically it's just a way to communicate from stage to two tech booths.  Don't have the funds to purchase a new system. Does anyone have any older units they are not using anymore that you would like to sell cheap or donate?  Thanks for reading!

[Scott Holtzman]

Hi everyone.  Our church is in need of a small clear-com (or similar) system.  We need a base station and three individual stations or beltpacks (we will use them stationary not beltworn).  Also, we don't need headsets as we will be using handsets at each station.  Basically it's just a way to communicate from stage to two tech booths.  Don't have the funds to purchase a new system. Does anyone have any older units they are not using anymore that you would like to sell cheap or donate?  Thanks for reading!

The base station is just a power supply.  Even old belt packs are expensive and nobody wants to give them up.


Would phones do?  You could get some heavy duty phones, a four port gateway and a Raspberry Pi and make a little PBX.

[MikeHarris]

this is some of the better inexpensive intercom stuff
https://prointercomllc.com/products
their econoCom is very rugged
you were not looking for wireless but the ListenTalk  4 channel is @25% the cost of big boys

[Scott Hofmann]

Hi everyone.  Our church is in need of a small clear-com (or similar) system.  We need a base station and three individual stations or beltpacks (we will use them stationary not beltworn).  Also, we don't need headsets as we will be using handsets at each station.  Basically it's just a way to communicate from stage to two tech booths.  Don't have the funds to purchase a new system. Does anyone have any older units they are not using anymore that you would like to sell cheap or donate?  Thanks for reading!

Sent you an email.

[Rob Spence]

The base station is just a power supply.  Even old belt packs are expensive and nobody wants to give them up.


Would phones do?  You could get some heavy duty phones, a four port gateway and a Raspberry Pi and make a little PBX.

Raspberry pi isn’t useful unless it it turnkey for most of us.

Ok, am grumpy tonight...

[Scott Holtzman]

Raspberry pi isn’t useful unless it it turnkey for most of us.

Ok, am grumpy tonight...

There are several preconfigured FreePBX/Asterisk images for Raspberry Pi.  Just burn to a SD card, boot enter a few network parameters, the mac address of the endpoints and you are off to the races.

[Henry Cohen]

There are several preconfigured FreePBX/Asterisk images for Raspberry Pi.  Just burn to a SD card, boot enter a few network parameters, the mac address of the endpoints and you are off to the races.

I guess when you're an IT professional, there's a network for everything 

Half a dozen POTS phones and a 48VDC PSU.

[Mike Caldwell]

Find a surplus military field phone system.
I'm kind of half way serious.

[Scott Holtzman]

I guess when you're an IT professional, there's a network for everything 

Half a dozen POTS phones and a 48VDC PSU.

That gets you blow battery but how would you make them ring.


WRT OpenSource rabbit hole there is a solution for every problem.  Even the ones you don't know you have.


Been Asterisk and Jitsi there are enough softswitches that you could build an all OpenSource Unity type system using SIP.  The PTT code that Motorola used to try and emulate IDEN over 1x had enough open source components that when things went south it was dumped into open source.  I wish I could program.  My ability to marshal resources for open source projects was proven as non-existent WRT the inventory project. Nobody wants to code for free anymore.

[Henry Cohen]

That gets you blow battery but how would you make them ring.

Don't necessarily need a ringere: Just leave the handset off hook and listen for a call. Or retrofit with a speaker or headset. But if you want a ringer, tap off the 120VAC supplying the 48VDC PSU, and a momentary DPDT [break before make] switch.

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