Recorder Telephone Pickup

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

First time buying one, and RS was the only local store to stock them. It works very well with cordless and corded phones. It does NOT work well at all with cellphones. (The audio was barely heard and RF interference overwhelming.) This little device will serve me well with unwanted telemarketers and records of conversations. Just place the suction cup on the back of the handset, near the top, and plug into your recorder.

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

This adapter plugs right into the hole marked 'adapter' on a cheap tape recorder while the suction cup stays on the back of the ear part of the phone. (I have hidden my 'recording phone' under a desk, out of sight, in another room). Every time a telephone receiver is picked up to dial out or answer a call...the tape recorder starts taping. It is activated by someone using the phone. You will NOT miss any phone conversations unless your cassette tapes are too short. Purchase a cheap recorder, long running cassettes, new batteries/plug, and you are going to hear everything, just like you are listening from another phone. You'll LOVE IT, I use this device to find out what others are doing behind my back. LOVE IT!

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

This pickup works well with some phone handets, not quite as well with others. So experiment first before you're on a critical call to see if it'll work with your phone. Also, you'll have to try it in different positions on the handset to see which works best. It'll work with some cell phones, too, by sticking the suction cup directly on the screen, but with others, all you'll get will be EMF noise. It'll still work if you hold it against your cell phone's sound port.

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

Very good product and much bitter than the modern ones, also much sheeper...

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

I first purchased this device at Radio Shack more than twenty years ago. I finally wore the connection wires out this week. I have Parkinson's Disease and could not repair it myself. For the [$], I am buying two more. Should get me through the next forty years. I use it every day, year round. I notify those I am speaking to that they are being recorded and have utilized the recordings in numerous court cases as admissible evidence. I rated this priceless device according to its durability, ease of use and reliability, "*****"! Well worth your investment.

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

I like this recorder because it's the old school way to go, this device really only works well with classic desk phones, like the one it is pictured with, or payphones... although some modern ones are too thick for the device to pick up sound decently.

The only "con" i have for this recorder is that they tend to lose suction and fall off the phone sometimes, on older desk phones, these work equally well by sticking them to the base of the phone, and they tend not to fall off as much.

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

We've been using the magnetic pickups from Radio Shack since 1987 and they've always recorded clean audio free of excessive noise "hiss".

We needed them for occassional use at payphones (few in number today) and always performed well.

Its wired magnet detects the resonance of the earpiece and sends it to your recorders Mic jack, some PBX brands were incompatible but in the years with either our systems or visited facilities, we only had issues with a Rolm system and one we haven't seen in use or sold for years now.

Lucent, GTE, and other major PBX brand handsets use this device with clarity and it remains an enduring solution in our company to this day and likely many more.

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

preserving conversations with doctors, insurance reps, and government employees with short memories.

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

I used this Telephone Pickup with my EMF circuit. The pickup coil detects electromagnetic fields. This coil is ideal for this type of application when low frequencies are amplified by an Opamp and fed into a comparator circuit. I cut off all but 3 inches of the wire and insert it into my circuit. This coil works very well for this application. A great pickup coil.

Comments about RadioShack Recorder Telephone Pickup:

Works really well on my home phone. On my cell, it only picks up the incoming voice, but that's all. So, for home phone, it's awesome. For cell phones, not so good.