Xref: utzoo misc.wanted:4737 misc.forsale:4994 sci.electronics:6020 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pacbell!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: misc.wanted,misc.forsale,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Remote Home monitoring via telephone! Message-ID: <576@corpane.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 89 12:44:55 GMT References: <209@bud.UUCP> Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Distribution: na Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc. Lines: 24 In article kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kurt A. Geisel) writes: >And then there is the para-legal "Infinity Transmitter" which does >essentially the same thing, but you can, using a special tone encoder, >connect directly to the room "microphone" WITHOUT THE PHONE EVER >RINGING. Without the tone encoder the telephone works normally! I saw a book called (I believe) "The Big Brother Game" that had plans for many type of bugging devices, and this was one of them. You might try a library. >If you want to get really fancy, there's Steve Ciarcia's "Video Rover" >system which uses his Imagewise image transmitter to give you a video >picture of your home, complete with camera-aiming commands. From what I understand the FCC prohibits any kind of unlicensed video transmitter. I remember a project long ago in popular electronics on making a video transmitter for your home, and there was a big stink over it after it was published. Has this changed? -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps [not for RHF] | sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 Chicken Little only has to be right once.