Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 27 May 91 13:29:25 GMT From: George Goble Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular "Harrassment" at Airport Security Message-ID: Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 411, Message 12 of 12 Lines: 41 In article bernhold@red8 (David E. Bernholdt) writes: > In article bowles@stsci.edu (Richard > Bowles) writes: >> mike@post.att.com (Michael Scott Baldwin) writes: >>> She *asked me* to turn it on for her! I asked why, >>> and she just said "turn it on please". Once it bleeped and blinked >>> for her, she was satisfied. I have never had any hassles carrying on a portable Motorola 8000 cell phone. I was usually using it at the gate prior to boarding, and when boarding starting, I always powered it off. A couple of times the attendent started to approach me, and I said I know about the FAA rule and would keep the phone powered off ... no problems. I also have a portable terminal I built in an aluminum "zero" equipment case. It has a Zenith Z-181 laptop, a Telebit 'Blazer+ modem and nineteen Radio Shaft "D" size high capacity Nicad cells. It also has power regulators, and all the associated wiring. It connects to my cell phone and can be used to "dial up" in MNP mode. This thing looks like one hell of a bomb on the X-ray. I usually tell the X-ray operator to "expect an eyefull" before he runs it ... and have gotten many odd looks. One of them didn't even want to open it, but asked me for the battery count! Only once or twice did anyone want it turned on (that seemed to start at Lockerbee time). Once, I was in line at the X-ray at Ft Lauderdale, and got a call about a dead system at Purdue (using Follow-me roaming, during its second week of operation). I set up the terminal on the floor about six feet from the X-ray, dialed up, rebooted the system, etc. When I was done, there was quite a crowd of guards, etc, looking on, and they were "amazed" that I had fixed some other system at Purdue. ghg