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From: irv@happym.wa.com (Irving Wolfe)
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Subject: Re: Help Needed With AT&T Portable Phone
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In <11015@accuvax.nwu.edu> john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:

>BTW, 25-30 feet is about all you can expect from a cordless phone in
>an electrically hostile environment, such as the one I have here.

He doesn't know how lucky he is, or how bad Panasonic cordless phones
can be despite the quality of their other phone equipment.  Mine
starts becoming a little noisy at five feet and is about as noisy as
it can be and still be usable at fifteen feet.  My AT&T oordless
phone, on the other hand, probably can go twenty-five feet or more
(but not very much more).

However, I don't accept output power limitation by the FCC as a
legitimate excuse.  We pick up little tiny signals from satellites
that are thousands of miles away.  Ham radio operators pick up -- when
the ionosphere or somebody up there provides a cooperative bounce --
low level signals from around the world.  The FCC probably doesn't
prescribe a particular sort of modulation or the use of the cheapest
chip available.  If a 0.6 watt handheld portable cellular phone can
talk to a cell site miles away, which it can, with clear reception
both ways, certainly someone could design a cordless phone that really
lives up to the traditional 1,000 foot claim.

If anyone knows of one, please let me know!  I'd like to buy a couple.


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