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Never seen a rotary dial like this one.

Started by N7LTH, January 11, 2016, 08:25:07 PM

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N7LTH

Well, I took the mystery phone to my workbench and removed the base... yep, it's a bleep-blank-censored FrankenPhone. Ten pulses from an 11-hole dial, among other things...

Oh, well- you live and learn :) such is life.
You know you have either phonitis or phonosis when your favorite film is "Dial Comes to Town".

Jack Ryan

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Quote from: N7LTH on January 13, 2016, 07:28:11 PM
Oh, well- you live and learn

Exactly, so the phone was a good investment!

Jack

I agree with Jack, ANYTIME you find an oddity, it's good investment.

D/P

N7LTH

Quote from: Jack Ryan on January 13, 2016, 07:31:40 PM

Exactly, so the phone was a good investment!

Jack

In that regard, it certainly was. I can also cannibalize it if need be for future phones in my collection.
You know you have either phonitis or phonosis when your favorite film is "Dial Comes to Town".

WEBellSystemChristian

It's also an example of what extents a modern refurbishing house will go to in order to create a phone. It isn't a cheap quarter-pound hunk of plastic made in China, it uses old parts, and any repro parts on it are closely replicated from the real thing.
Christian Petterson

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Owain

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I don't know how it made it to the UK, but there's a Collins Autotune dial on Ebay UK

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REDUCED-Rare-11-Position-Telephone-Dial-For-Collins-Autotune-Radio-Transmitter/183375851248


Jim Stettler

Quote from: Owain on August 12, 2018, 06:25:07 PM
I don't know how it made it to the UK, but there's a Collins Autotune dial on Ebay UK

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REDUCED-Rare-11-Position-Telephone-Dial-For-Collins-Autotune-Radio-Transmitter/183375851248


I have a collins autotune set. It looks like a metal WE 302'. It has the same dial. There is a a metal plate riveted to the bottom. It had a "F# PTT handset w/ collins aropund the bezel.
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ISTR that these had to do with early radio-telephony for a truckers network. The "A" dialed you into a private radio network. ISTR This network ran along East/West Highways. It may of become affiliated with MCI. I could be totally wrong as well.
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Doug Rose

I have an AE dial like this with the A on a tele-chec Phone....Doug
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Dan/Panther

Question for Paul.

On the other thread I made a comment, that possibly if you dial, and hold the unmarked hole, might create a mute situation, can you comment on that ?

D/P

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The eBay listing has an image of the dial's back side (first image below). The company name on the dial is "Telephonics." A google search turned up the company web site

     https://www.telephonics.com/

has a link to their "visual" 80 year history in a pdf brochure

     https://www.telephonics.com/uploads/standard/TelephonicsA-Visual-History.pdf

(which has been attached here) and within that brochure it shows a dial made in the 1950 similar to the dial listed on eBay with not much about the dial, red box on the second image below.

Function and/or application(s) of the dial was not found, might have missed it. However, if you look through the historical brochure, it's interesting to see how the company changed over the years to keep up with technology. There current product line is impressive in application.

rdelius

Many if not all TP 6A sets have Telephonics dials. Most parts will interchange with AE.Collins made many autotune radios for the military. The transmitter could be in a remote location and could change to preset channels and be tuned to the antenna.