Hooking up the hybrid coupler to record a phone interview

The following instructions below will tell you how to hookup the library's hybrid coupler to your phone, so that you can record phone conversations - note, the below instructions only work on ANALOG phones; UAF Telephone Services is increasingly installing DIGITAL phone lines. If your phone extension is NEW, you may have a digital line. Telephone Services can tell you which you have. The equipment you need looks like this:

 


Gentner Hybrid Coupler

RJ 11 Telephone Cord

RCA red/white audio cord

 

  • An rj-11 telephone cord goes from the wall
    telephone jack to the line jack on the coupler.
  • An rj-11 telephone cord goes from the telephone
    set to the “set” jack on the coupler.
  • An audio cord (with single mono jack) goes from
    the “receive” jack on the coupler to the left “line in” jack on the
    Marantz 620. You can also use the white jack of the red /white audio cord
    to plug into the left “line in”.
  • Call the person – you should be able to hear
    them and see the response on the audio meter on the 620, as long as the
    switch stays on “tap”, and the 620’s “display” button is selected to the
    audio meter. Try a test recording to be sure.

Media Services, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
310 Tanana Loop, PO Box 756808
Fairbanks, Alaska USA 99775-6800
Phone: (907) 474-7072  Email: fymedia@uaf.edu