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Our small museum is not open to the public regularly, once a month. 
During the school year, local school classes regularly attend the museum 
from 9 am to 3-4 pm during the week. Museum staff, now one person, and 
sometimes two are there from 9 to 2:30 pm. The only way for someone 
trying to get in is through the locked front door, which is only 
unlocked for school visits. The only way to tell if anyone is in the 
office is if the lights are on in the office, and the office windows are 
7' off the ground. There is a buzzer, but, if people in the office are 
on the phone, it may take them many minutes to walk out to the door and 
open it. All this and more presents a problem for people who drop in on 
occasion. I'm looking for away to make this easier on everyone.

I suspect and outdoor to office intercom might work, but I doubt anyone 
is going to wire one up. In our house, I'm usually in an outside 
building, which has a phone that's part of the household phone system. 
My wife and I use a The Shack (Radio Shack) inexpensive telephone 
connected intercom. When someone wants my attention in another area, 
they press the call button and initiate a conversation.  I don't think 
this will work at the museum, since there's no phone outside. Maybe  
Shack has an inexpensive one that has it's own "phone" facility. If so, 
it would be easy to hook up. Put one "phone" on the wall outside, and 
run the wire through the window into the office. The window is easy to 
open, protected from the weather, and lockable in any position. Anyway, 
I'm looking for suggestions on how to simplify getting the attention in 
the office. Maybe a wireless device would work.

-- 
           Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)

             (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
              Obz Site:  39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet  

         "I feel that if a person has problems communicating 
          the very least he can do is to shut up." -- Tom Lehrer
 
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