Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: brian@network.edu (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Plantronics LiteSet Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 89 00:43:29 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Brian Kantor Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Lines: 21 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 341, message 5 of 8 I have one. The portable transmits on 46.6 megs, receives on 49.6. Clearly the base is the other way 'round. It is FM, and uses a digital pulse train to control the hookswitch and dialing. Mine worked well at home, poorly at work near all the old unshielded computers. I found that the receiver was grossly out of alignment and more than tripled the range by retuning it - my conjecture is that the coils had vibrated out of adjustment during shipping, plus the usual cheap parts aging. It's really made by Uniden, BTW. At least, it says UNIDEN all over the inside, and it is of typical Taiwan/Japan low-end consumer construction. Note that the FCC regs prohibit extending the range by making the transmit antenna longer. If you want to go to the trouble, you could legally separate the receiver from the transmit antenna connections in the base unit and put a big receive antenna on it. BTW, if you use the remote to tell the base to go off-hook and then pull the power cord off the base, you can listen to all the other cordless phones and baby monitors in the neighbor's houses.