RotaTone & Dial Gizmo Pulse to Tone Converters

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I've just got myself a 8746 G BT phone. from 1981-1985 era and comes with an RJ11.

I now need to get a pulse to tone converter.

I saw Panasonic mentioned in here but it needed some programming.

I have also come across another product called dial-a-tone. Anyone used this product? I did a search on here but nothing came back about it.

On Vintage Telephony Web site, which is one of the places selling it, it states this:

Designed exclusively for us by Geoff Peters, the 'Dial-A-Tone' is a line powered unit which operates with no loud beeps, no pausing between digits and no special dialling technique required. There is, by intention, no 'last number redial', no 'stored numbers', no 'star' or 'hash' - nothing to interfere with the authentic vintage experience of using a period telephone.

We now also offer our Dial-A-Tone with a 2-way splitter which can be used to provide an addition socket at the router, or to allow two telephones to be plugged into one Dial-A-Tone.

https://www.vintagetelephony.co.uk/product/pulse-to-tone-converter-dial-a-tone-dialatone

I have 3 other phones currently not set up as they are older and need more work to get them working, and I'm not practical when it comes to doing things like this by hand. I'm much better with computers. Perhaps one day I will find someone who can do the work for me to get them all working, so whether I need to allow for those, I'm not sure.

I now have one phone from every town I've leaved in, complete with labels and all purchased on my travels in the order I've lived in them. These being

• Haywards Heath GPO 711 L. 664/1 [1960s model]
• Oxford GPO 746 PLA68/1 [early 1970s mode]
• Guildford BT 8746 G [early 1980s model]

I also have a Siemens W28.Na.v210W28 phone from 1943 [German], which was my first purchase.

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Probably far to late to answer, but for me dial-a-tone looks made for UK systems, the difference is based on the mastersocket system who divides the ringer signal so you use 3 wires, 1 common, one for ringers, and one for voice and dialing.