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From: decwrl!fernwood!well.sf.ca.us!well!droid@uunet.uu.net (Marty Brenneis)
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Subject: 911 Demonstration  Program Wanted
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Here is a free idea to any company out there to make this thing.

EMS week is comming soon to a shopping mall or school near you.  For
our local EMS week display we'd like to have a place where people can
pick up a real phone and dial 911 and talk to a real 911 dispatcher.
The folks could watch the dispatcher answer the call and interview the
caller to send the proper help.

(EMS is Emergency Medical Services system)

For obvious reasons we don't want to use a PSTN line for this trick.

Here is my idea for a product for this trick.  A card to fit into a PC
clone that will supply battery and supervisory tones to a normal
phone, and a second jack for the heaset phone for the dispatcher. With
this would be a piece of software to simulate a PSAP screen for the
dispatcher.

If one could make this card for a reasonable price ($100 - 150) they
could be marketed to the 911 agencies across the country as a teaching
aid for the public.

At present I suppose I could borrow a small PBX (SX50) and program it
to have a port with the extension 911.


Thanks,

Marty Brenneis
American Red Cross   Marin County Chapter
uunet!droid@kerner      415-389-1113