I need to be able to hear the phone ringing in another room,
without having to start laying cable .

There must be some wireless solution

My phone does have an audio socket .... maybe that could take some
kind of antenna ?

So why cant you just use cordless phones?

Im on a landline

Cordless phones have a base station that plugs into the phone line and transmit to wireless handsets. You can usually run several handsets from the same base station. When a call comes in it rings all the handsets wherever they are as long as they are in range of the base station.

Random example

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BT-2000-Cord...dp/B00AF83IS8/

They also can have an answer machine built in to the base station and you can transfer calls internally or use them as an internal intercom.

Note for safety reasons keep your old phone. In the event of a emergency involving a power failure plugging in the old phone will be the only way to call the emergency services (unless of course you also have a mobile phone).

I see what you mean.... yes that might be a good idea...


I was orig thinking of a kind of door bell that would sit in the kitchen
with an antenna plugged into the phone

but a cordless phone could be the answer..... maybe £30 ?

You need at least two, one on the base station that plugs into your telephone line and the other in the other place you need to hear it (needs a power point to charge the batteries at both points, and power the base station itself.

Just about possible for £30.00

eg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0082VHTEE?psc=1

I may have misunderstood but there's no need for two phones. We have one, it sits on its charging cradle in the hall usually but can just as likely be in the living room or anywhere else where it was last left by careless hands. It only needs to be on the cradle to charge; as long as its in range of the base it can be anywhere.

How long can you leave the phone off the charger in another room before the batteries go flat ? I doubt the OP wants to remember every time he leaves the room to take the phone with him.

Generally all day. Return it to the charger at bedtime.

Kind of missing the point, the OP wants to be able to hear the phone ring in 2 locations.

After about 12 months the batteries last nowhere near all day, 2hrs if you are lucky.

Looking at the Which? cordless phone reviews with call blocking features, the top Best Buy is the BT 4500. Sound quality on the phone and via the loudspeaker is good. It's compatible with hearing aids and has an audio-boost feature which enables you to increase the volume on calls. The range is very good. An answering machine is built-in but you can buy the 4000 instead if you don't want this and that'll save you a whole £2.

It has big buttons and a backlit 1.8 inch screen with an easy to read font and a 'live conversation recording' facility so you can capture important pieces of information such as addresses or directions.

From Amazon for £31: http://www.amazon.co.uk/BT-Cordless-...e+Call+Blocker. Two phone set £49: http://www.amazon.co.uk/BT-Cordless-...e+Call+Blocker

If you don't fancy that, the 2nd place Best Buy is the Panasonic KX-TGC220EB with answering machine, a 1.6 inch screen and smaller buttons. Good sound quality again and good range. You can block up to 30 individual numbers or any anonymous calls. It only fell down on the quality of recorded messages on the answering machine, the phone is just as good as the BT 4500. From Amazon for £23.40: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-KX...ic+KX-TGC220EB. Two phone set £37 (Model no KX-TGC222EB): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-KX...onic+KX-TGC222

If you want me to look for other cordless phones from the Which? reviews, just post OP.

Thats why they are called cordless, you carry them with you.

Did you not know you can replace the batteries?

Also they come in kits of 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 etc. so the OP can have one on charge in the bedroom, lounge, hall, kitchen etc. you can even take them outside whilst doing the gardening, or washing the car.

Yeah, they sometimes have quite a long range from the base station,
one guy took a phone in the pub across the street and still got calls to it !

I give up , of course I do know you can replace the batteries


I change the batteries on my 4 digital phones about every two years. I also have a permanent standard phone connected which can always be used (as recommended by all the emergency services).

The whole point which you appear to have completely missed is that having only a single cordless phone on a single base station is a very bad idea. This was the post I originally responded to.

It could leave you in a situation where it is impossible to contact the emergency services in the event of a loss of power (Not unknown in the emergency situation - If you cannot call the Fire Brigade because someone has moved your only phone and the battery has gone flat, do you not consider this is a dangerous situation )

If you had read the thread. I already posted that a minimum of two digital phones should be the minimum if a standard line powered phone was not also connected (or available to plug in if required)

The message is, read the thread before responding to a single post, perhaps we should include all the posts in a single post before idiots respond clearly without actually reading what was posted previously.

yes, thats a big minus for the cordless phone if mem serves...

the main phone ( base station ) is ....powered.... from an adaptor so when you have a power
cut your phone is dead.

standard land line phones are of course powered from the BT line so they
are ok even during a power cut

So going of your figures, after 1yr you get 2hrs, so as you leave them for 2yrs you must only be getting 1hr
Not very pratical, you need to change your batteries more often.

The problem with just having a ringer in another room is that you have to get to the phone before it stops ringing. Multi-pack cordless handsets are really cheap these days. Seems silly to look at any other solution.

My wife is registered deaf but can still use a phone. We've been through the same kind of process of searching for a solution. All the loud ringer products that are powered from the phone socket are fixed devices. i.e. they make the phone's ring louder, but only when plugged in to a telephone socket. They aren't portable.

We went through a phase of trying a wireless door chime with a flasher unit. This was portable. I'm telling you this because of the parallel with what you're looking for. The problems with it were two-fold. First, in order to be always ready, it had to maintain a live wireless connection permanently. That ate batteries like nobodies business. The second problem was having to remember to take the chime with her every time she moved rooms. It wasn't that practical when doing housework. The upshot was it cost a fortune in batteries (ordinary and then rechargeables + charger) for something that often got left in the wrong room when someone actually called at the door.

Wireless ringer extensions do exist in the US market. LINK I'm sure if you search on Google you may well find a UK licensed equivalent. The problem though is cost and practicality. Even with a wireless ringer, you still have to get to the phone in the other part of the house. Second, a twin pack DECT cordless phone kit is likely to be cheaper and you can answer the call straight away. That's what we (my deaf wife and I) use. It works. Simple.

YOURE right, the base station in the lounge
the cordless phone in the kitchen.... sorted !

and keep my old phone handy in case of any power cuts

Why not get a socket adaptor so you can plug two phones in same socket and then you can leave landline plugged in just in case power cut is at night.

POWER cuts are pretty rare nowadays,
must be 5 years since the last one

The point being the possibility that the emergency and the power cut might be the same event:
Fire in the consumer unit;
Burglar cut/disconnected mains supply (possible in some rural homes);
Intruder in substation electrocuted requiring urgent medical attention, substation rendered inoperable.

Suggest the OP gets a box of flares, just in case extreme weather brings down their phone line and power is also disrupted......

Thats not a emergency just leave them