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From: kurtk@tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM (Kurt Krueger)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Long-range cordless phones? (> 2000 feet)
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Date: 17 Oct 89 14:49:05 GMT
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You will discover that the power is severly limited for a radio transmitter
that is operated without a license (which is just what a cordless phone is).
The FCC limits the power such that the effective range is about 750 feet.
This doesn't mean that you get very clear transmission at even that range.
Advertising does the rest.

As in most cases, there are phones out there that a significantly worse.  My
phone has its good and bad days.  Just depends on what else is putting out
static on what frequency.  One feature that seems to help is the fact that
my phone (a Sony) automatically searches the allocated 10 phone channels
for a quiet one.  If your conversation starts to get noisy, you can have the
phone search for a quieter channel (it usually helps, but not always a lot).

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