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From: kline@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Looking for FM transmitter
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Date: 8 Jun 90 01:26:13 GMT
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darel@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Darel Mesher) writes:
>  iii) Finally... you must also realize the there are a KaZillion Fisher
>	Price baby monitors out there, each on 49Mhz and each broadcasting
>	for miles and miles and miles.....  Last year on a bike trip out
>	east my wife and I were absolutely amazed at the conversations we
>	were party to because of the RS headsets we were wearing. Every time
>	we entered a city limits the VOX would kick in and then we would 
>	get to listen to crying, baby-talk, family fights...... I'll tell
>	you, the FBI sure doesn't need to bug houses anymore- just use
>	a baby-monitor-monitor!


I'm sayin'.  At the little theatre I volunteer at they went through
three or four sets of wireless intercoms for backstage communications
and show calling until I convinced them that they were ALL on 49MHz and
ALL would have the same terribly distracting squelch-breaks and
babbling children.  I just finished installing a wired intercom I
designed (with the help of this newsgroup, I might add.. THANKS
EVERYBODY.. wish you could see the program for our production of Noises
Off.. "sci.electronics" gets an acknowledgement credit that I made them
put in) which finally solved the problem once and for all.

Out of curiosity, I drove around town one night with a scanner watching
the 49MHz and thereabouts frequencies, and I made the same observation
as Mr. Mesher did--there's a lot of fun things to listen to!! :)

_____
Charley Kline
Assistant Technical Director and Gadgeteer, the Celebration Company, Urbana IL.
c-kline@uiuc.edu

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