So, when was my PAX built?
Since I first got it, I’ve been trying to work out how to tell when my PAX was built. Initially, I thought it was much earlier than it is. My first post here describes it as “1930s” which turns out...
View ArticleAutomatic Telephone and Electric Company (ATM/ATE) – Adverts
Following on from my post the other week about determining what year my PAX was made, I’ve been digging through old telephony books looking for adverts relating to ATM/ATE. While I haven’t (yet) found...
View ArticlePAX Update
My last progress report on the PAX restoration was over a month ago. I’ve made some significant progress since then – I just haven’t written about it. Well, I say that. I’m keeping a paper diary, I...
View ArticleSchematic
Not an exciting photo this evening, but it does represent a good chunk of what I’ve been up to tonight. I’m trying to get my head around how to modify the selectors on my PAX to provide tie line...
View ArticleModifications
I’ve not been posting much this week as I’ve spent most of my evenings going cross eyed trying to modify a chunk of my phone exchange so that it can talk to other phone exchanges. The easiest way to...
View ArticlePAX mega update!
It’s been over 6 months since I last updated on this project, which is a shame because I’ve done rather a lot since then! Apologies if you’re one of my non-telephone readers, this probably isn’t going...
View ArticlePriority Calling Modifications
My description of priority calling in yesterdays post wasn’t quite accurate. I’ve dug out the Operational Bulletin and checked. It says: 3.4 Priority Service An official having this service may speak...
View ArticleConnecting my PAX collection
My collection of phone exchanges hasn’t really grown at all in over a year now, but they’re still all very much isolated islands. You can’t phone from one exchange into any of the others (with the...
View ArticlePAX Update – FS3 woes
Yesterdays update was about BOV, so it’s only fitting that todays update is about the other large project at home, my phone exchange. Since my last update back in September, I’ve made a fair bit of...
View ArticlePAX Mega-Update, and a video.
To celebrate that I’ve got enough tie lines working to phone from one side of the living room to the other, via the asterisk server at the Dean Forest Railway. I made a video of me dialling...
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