hpr4723 :: friedcamp interviews part 3: The fried telephone system

Kristoff talks to Lieven about a nice side-project at friedcamp: the telephone system

Hosted by Kristoff on Wednesday, 2026-09-09 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
fri3dcamp, telephone network, hackercamp. 2.

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Comment #1 posted on 2026-09-13 05:22:10 by Cli

Background noise.

I had trouble differentiating from the foreground, midground and background noises in this episode.

What mic setup was in use?

Comment #2 posted on 2026-09-26 21:15:53 by Whiskeyjack

Dial telephones

I found the part about young people not knowing how to operate a dial telephone to be rather amusing. I can find that do be very believable, given the reaction that I have seen from some young people to a "dumb phone" style cell phone with a keypad below the screen. "What wizardry is this!" was their reaction when they saw how much smaller it was than their smart phone.

On a somewhat different tack, if anyone has experience with old phone equipment, I think that would make a great series of episodes. The older the kit, the better as well, but even relatively new stuff would be interesting.

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