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From: ebh@hou4b.UUCP (Ed Horch)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Nomad 4000 responses
Message-ID: <1355@hou4b.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 13:34:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 13:34:25 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Mar-85 04:31:55 EST
Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ
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I got many reponses to my request for information on the AT&T Nomad
4000 cordless phone.  All but two of them were positive.  Most people
liked the freedom of not being leashed by a cord (obviously).  Nobody
complained about people making illegal calls.

One of the negative respondents complained of excessive interference, 
and being able to hear other people's conversations.  The other said
that there was an omnipresent whine that you have to put up with while
you're talking.

Special thanks to Bob Parnass for mailing me a complete discussion on
cordless phones in general that took place some time ago.

With all the responses in mind, I decided to go ahead and get the phone,
especially since I had ten days to return it if I didn't like it.  I've
had it about two weeks and really like it.  There are small amounts of
RFI from time to time, but not enough to be bothersome.  The whine the
person mentioned is there, but you get used to it, and the person on the
other end can't hear it (at least that's what the people I asked said).

I only have two complaints:  I've never liked push-button pulse-dial,
but that seems to be a necessary evil these days.  If an equivalent
phone with touch-tone comes out I'll definitely get one.  The other
problem is that it's hard to use the "hook" button on the handset to
do switchhook flashes (like for call-waiting).  Since the base does
not repond instantaneously to handset stimuli, flashes are not easy
to do.

All in all, I'm very satisfied with the phone, and during the first
ten days never even considered taking it back.  BTW, for you tech
types, the set uses F3 modulation, and the base transmits on 46Mhz
and receives on 49Mhz, so there are none of the inherent problems
with one of the channels running at 1700Khz...

Once again, thanks to all that responded.

-Ed Horch {ihnp4,akgua,houxm}!hou4b!ebh