Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Plantronics LiteSet Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 89 10:04:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 338, message 1 of 7 The Plantronics LiteSet at the downtown office worked fine for a hundred feet in a building with lots of metal. I found it to be joy, except for the ribbing from the folks about talking to myself. Sound quality seemed to be good for both ends, for the most part. I faintly remember something odd, like a peculiar circumstance that happened on certain medium-distance calls, that made reception faint; I don't remember the exact details. Its AGC may have been swamped by the chopper frequency of the bi-directional amp on an analog line. Trying to use it under the massive RF spew from Spewtro Tower (that great ugly thing on top of San Francisco) about a mile away resulted in it's having a range of about 3 feet. It would maintain the connection but you couldn't hear anything but a great sizzling noise, further away than 3 feet from the base station. Just a rant about Spewtro (Sutro) Tower: I can't use an inexpensive oscilliscope at UCSF for the RF "hair" on the traces. Local residents complain about the interference that gets IN to the local CATV system, which shows up as hash in their TV pictures. Someone claimed that they could get KPIX on their bathroom mirror. :-) Goddess only knows how mutagenic the silly thing is. Joe Stong jst@dorothy.UUCP jst@cca.ucsf.edu pacbell!dorothy!jst