Glen McMillan Whangārei Urban General Ward
Antique & Retro Telephone - Sale

Retro & Antique Rotary Phone Sale:

We have a range of telephones for sale, including bakelite telephones from the 40s to the 50s working or display pieces. We have retro dial telephones from the 1970s and push-button phones from the 1980s

 

Don't miss out on our pulse tone converter adaptor, now available at an affordable price of $129.00. This innovative device breathes new life into older dial phones, allowing them to dial out.

 

Old rotary phones from a bygone era can be brought back to life. Please email me with your inquiry to antiquephonesnz@gmail.com

Antique & Retro Telephones - What We Do

Our Services:

Antique and retro telephone sales and services. 

We can rewire telephones from the 1950s to the 1980s and enable the ringing part or even make the whole telephone work, wall phones, and desk phones.

Phone: 09 971 7655 or 021 685 400

Email: antiquephonesnz@gmail.com

DTMF Dialling:

DTMF is an in-band signaling method using eight different frequencies transmitted in pairs. These tones are the beeps we hear when dialing.

 

Tone dial from Antique Phones NZ a pulse-tone converter is an adaptor box which plugs into your socket then into the rotary dial phone this then converts the ‘ticks’ produced by the rotary dial to the ‘beeps’ produced by most keypad phones.

 

It’s a simple device that listens for the pulse clicks and converts them to DTMF tones.

Rewiring Telephones:

We rewire antique and retro telephones we also restore wooden wall phones bringing that old weathered timber back to life.

We have a range of telephones for sale including bakelite phones from the 40s to the 50s working or display pieces we have retro dial phones and push button phones many in working condition.

Antique & Retro Telephone
Pulse To Tone Converter

DTMF Dialling:

DTMF is an in-band signaling method using eight different frequencies transmitted in pairs. These tones are the beeps we hear when dialing.

Tone dial from Antique Phones NZ a pulse-tone converter is an adaptor box which plugs into your socket then into the rotary dial phone this then converts the ‘ticks’ produced by the rotary dial to the ‘beeps’ produced by most keypad phones.

It’s a simple device that listens for the pulse clicks and converts them to DTMF tones.

Some pulse to tone converters are standalone devices that can be connected between the telephone and the telephone line. Others are integrated into telephone adapters or even smartphone applications, enabling the use of rotary dial phones with mobile networks.

It's worth noting that pulse to tone converters may not be compatible with all telephone systems or networks, so it's important to ensure compatibility before using one.

Tone Dialling With Rotary Dials:

Tone dialling with rotary dials using the Tone dial adaptor 

 

A pulse to tone converter is a device or circuit that is used to convert rotary dial pulses (also known as pulse dialing) into Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) tones. It is typically used in telecommunications equipment to interface with modern tone-based systems that rely on DTMF signaling.

 

In traditional telephones, rotary dials were used to generate pulses corresponding to the dialed number. Each digit had a specific number of pulses associated with it. For example, dialing the digit "1" would generate a single pulse, "2" would generate two pulses, and so on. These pulses were then transmitted over the telephone line to the exchange.

 

However, with the introduction of digital systems and push-button telephones, DTMF tones became the standard method for dialing numbers. DTMF tones are combinations of two frequencies, one from a low-frequency group and one from a high-frequency group. Each digit on a touch-tone keypad corresponds to a unique pair of frequencies.

 

A pulse to tone converter is used to bridge the gap between the older pulse dialing technology and the newer DTMF-based systems. It typically consists of a circuit that detects the incoming pulses, counts them, and generates the appropriate DTMF tone sequence based on the dialed number. This allows rotary dial phones to be used with modern telephone networks that require tone dialing.

Antique & Retro Telephones - Pulse To Tones (DTMF) Converter
Antique & Retro Telephone - Huge Sale On Now

Antique and Retro Phones For Sale:

Retro and Antique Rotary Phones.

Dial telephones can these still be used in New Zealand in 2023?

Yes, but in most areas you will need a Tone Dial converter from antique phones NZ to enable the dial function. Analog phones use a rotary dial, most New Zealand models are very similar with only minor differences, for example, the printing of the numbers on the dial is slightly different for some models. On their own, these telephones would not work with most modern telephone systems.

 

The ‘pulse dial’ that it produces is not compatible with modern telephone equipment and VoIP adapters alike. Some areas may still accept pulse signaling depending on the age of their equipment, but in 2023 only some Telecom NZ exchanges support this.

Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signaling has been around for decades.

We have a small number of 60s and 70s telecom phones which were retrofitted with button pads we have several some dial in tone the price will reflet that others dial in pulse so will require a Tone Dial adaptor to enable the dial function

Wooden phones

Antique & Retro Telephone - Dial & Retro Telephones

Dial & Retro Telephones:

Retro telephones including 1980s Telecom Pert series of telephone also most models of telecom push-button telephones from the 1970s and 80s.

Antique & Retro Telephone - Decorator Telephones

Decorator Telephones:

Decorator Telephones 1970s 1980s,  30 to 40 years old but in near new condition these were popular ornate pieces in many New Zealand homes.

Antique & Retro Telephones - Bakelite Telephones

Bakelite Telephones:

Bakelite Telephones were in use from the 1930s until the 1960s all Bakelite phone are pulse dialing, these can still be used in some areas.

Address: 61 Riverside Drive Riverside Whangarei 0112

Phone & Email: 021 685 400 antiquephonesnz@gmail.com