Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 11 Jun 91 13:06:17 GMT From: "Kenton A. Hoover" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Emergency Highway Phones Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 450, Message 6 of 11 Lines: 20 In Northern California, some of the new phones are outside the main cell areas. Specifically, there are some on Highway One north of Santa Cruz and some on I-580 in the hills between Oakland and Pleasanton. On those phones, they change the usual cell phone antennas for yagis. Most of the yagis on the Santa Cruz units point dead south towards Monterey. As to security, I wouldn't worry too much about it. The usual roadside robbery scam is to put a woman in apparent distress on a deserted road, to encourage concerned motorists to stop. When someone stops and approachs the car, the woman's compatriots appear and relieve the good samaritian of his or her valuables. This scam doesn't appear too often, since one report is usually enough to get the local highway patrol or state police to pay more attention. Kenton A. Hoover Chief Engineer | shibumi@well.sf.ca.us Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link +1 415 332 4335 | shibumi%kc6sst@w6rfn.ampr.org