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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #464
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- Info-Hams Digest Thu, 28 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 464
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- Today's Topics:
- personal autopatch calls
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- Date: 28 Apr 1994 08:54:29 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!elendir@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: personal autopatch calls
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- Mont Pierce (montp@vortex.eng.sc.rolm.com) wrote:
- >I read recently that the FCC ruled that it is now permissable to make personal
- >calls via autopatch to conduct personal tasks such as making a doctors or
- >dentists appointment. Can anyone out there answer the following:
-
- You╗re lucky overseas. In Europe, don╗t think about autopatches. First,
- local comms are charged, and it is absolutely forbidden to carry out a talk
- with a non-ham.
-
- Come on, order a pizza for me :)
-
- Vince, F1RCS.
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- Date: 28 Apr 1994 19:20:16 +1000
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!agate!msuinfo!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!kralizec.zeta.org.au!not-for-mail@network.ucsd.edu
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- References <2ou8jm$dim@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, <johng-220494122948@johng.comm.mot.com>, <tkMvtA3OBh107h@active.asstdc.com.au>t
- Subject : Re: radio in caves
-
- In article <tkMvtA3OBh107h@active.asstdc.com.au>,
- Mark Cheeseman <cheese@active.asstdc.com.au> wrote:
- >The Cave Rescue Squad here in NSW has a gadget called a Michie phone, which
- >is basically a high impedance field telephone. It has a single insulated wire
- >that is dragged through the cave, and periodic breaks in the insulation allow
- >the underground handset to be connected where needed. The circuit is completed
- >through the operator and the damp cave surface.
- >
- Yes, and they work a treat (pity about having to string all that wire
- around though :-) About $20 of components (741 op amp, box, switches,
- speaker etc) outperformed my FT-470 100 feet underground...
-
- For working above ground (up to 10,500 feet in one case :-) I prefer
- the Yaesu, though!
-
- 73 de Richard VK2SKY
-
- >
- >--
- >Mark Cheeseman cheese@active.asstdc.com.au Fido: 3:712/412.0 [+61 2 399 9268]
- > AX.25: VK2XGK@VK2OP.NSW.AUS.OC Ph +61 2 353 0143 Fax +61 2 353 0720
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