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From: bill@toto.info.com (Bill Cerny)
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Subject: Re: Four-Wire Line
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streeter@athena.cs.uga.edu (Tom Streeter) writes:

>News reports mention a "four wire line."  Could anyone enlighten me?

Terrestial 4W line?  Nah; rather a Marisat terminal (country code
873).  Unfold an antenna on the roof, drop a lead over the ledge to
your hotel room, plug in and talk to anyone in the U.S. for $4.00/min.

This was quite obvious to me; but the Iraqis figured it out after eight
hours.  ;-)


Bill Cerny
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