Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!killer!vector!nobody From: pyrnj!john@rutgers.edu (John Kurzman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: cordless phone Message-ID: Date: 13 Sep 88 19:07:05 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Reply-To: pyrnj!john@rutgers.edu (John Kurzman) Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 141, message 6 X-Submissions-To: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu (Mailing List Coordinator) X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp (USENET Telecom Moderator) A request was made for a cordless phone that could go a long distance (1000 feet almost made it). Megatronics International sells cordless phones with ranges from 3 miles to 40 miles! They are not for use in the U.S. These are not cellular phones. They would compete with Cellular in the US if they were legal here. They give you wide range for your own phone number without extra $ to the phone companies. FCC wouldn't be too pleased either. Ham operators can also get an attachment for their phone line so they can 'ham' to their phone (or vice-versa). A friend of mine used his from the LIRR moving train to his home >30 miles away with no problem. (But he had a license) The key ingredient in finding a long range cordless phone is legal issues for the radio transmission. The technology clearly exists. COMB had a long-range phone (greater than current legal limit) in their catalog for a while about a year or so ago.