Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: joe@mojave.ati.com (Joe Talbot) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Amazing, but True Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 89 10:20:23 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: ATI, High desert research center, Victorville, Ca Lines: 27 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 526, message 7 of 8 I received this strange call while working on a strange project involving sending a phone line (PBX station) to an FM radio station transmitter site by microwave and SCA, I had my test phone all set up, connected to my Panasonic, when the phone rang. The experimental phone wasn't quite up to par yet, so I wasn't suprised when all I heard was funny noises. I flashed and put the weird caller on hold and went to pick it up in another room, and I found that it sounded the same as on the experimental phone, RF fading and touch-tones and traffic sounds in the background. At first the tones were random, then I heard patterns that I recognized including my own number. OK, I thought, It's a cell phone, but whose? I put it on the speaker and listened until I heard a call waiting tone, so I flashed to answer it and got the same noises! Then all at once it came to me, handheld phone, motorcycle noises, three way calling, and the call had stayed up for quite some time (about 20 minutes). Since the call was long and uninterrupted, it couldn't be from the Pac*Tel system in LA, it's just not possible. The Pac*Tel system didn't offer three way calling, so, it must be John. Only in the 80's. joe@mojave I finally changed my dumb signiture. People were always telling me what a great signature I had.