I’m on a business trip this week. I am working in Colorado for a few days.
While here, I stopped in at the university’s surplus sales barn and had a look through their piles of interesting stuff. I usually try to pick up a new mouse or keyboard while I’m in the area.

It just so happened that they had a box which is used to interface between a PA system like you might find in a hotel conference/convention center, and a telephone. I was able to buy it very cheaply and I think I can make it work as an audio/telephone connection for our radio station.

One of our “rewards” we have been advertising on the fundraising site at indiegogo.com is to have our contributor give a 60 second testimonial about their favorite book. So I have been on the lookout for a way to interface telephone and audio system in order to record these testimonials over the phone.

If this thing works it will have saved us a couple hundred bucks, easy. If it doesn’t work then I’ll throw it into my electronics bone pile and use the parts for a ham radio project someday.