Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 23:41:48 EDT From: David Lesher Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wireless Phone Security Reply-To: David Lesher Message-ID: Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers 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 482, Message 6 of 9 Lines: 41 Others said: > Sununu claimed he was `on the phone practically the whole time'. [His car has STU III's and other means, maybe?] > I think that the latter is the more probable. White House communications > |is handled by the military -- the Air Force -- to be exact. The White House Communications Agency will be very disappointed to learn they are out of work. I hope they get paid unemployment benefits. I can't speak for what John's and/or the pool cars have, but the President's transportation has, in years past, been equipped with customized KY-71's. [I'm sure it also has one or more STU-III's.] The 71 was also called a STU-II, but some users never knew that. The 71 ran full duplex, but needed either four wire, or two dialup circuits! It always had PTT for those times you could only get one path. The STU-III runs full duplex on one dial-up line, or rather it tries to. It can revert to VOX half-duplex when the line is less than perfect. One significant advantage of the 71 was you could *understand* and recognize the other party. I always figured the reason for the cute LCD display on the -III was cuz otherwise you could not be sure it wasn't Joe's Pizza Parlor that you had reached ;-} ;-} One of many advantages of the III is they are far less prone to {hard} failure. Not all the calls work, but you are far less likely to have to get it worked on twice a month. It also offers a far more flexible key control system. On the 71 system, if you wanted to call from your agency X phone to Pete at Agency Y, you had to pass through a GSA run switch that had both sets of keys, or rather you HOPED it did ;-{ BTW, Jay Leno says George has taken up jogging again -- because John has the car ;-} wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (305) 255-RTFM