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  2. From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
  4. Subject: Re: Radio Shack's Scrambling Cordless Phone
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.215708.19570@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 21:57:08 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov17.052457.25776@u.washington.edu>
  8. Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
  9. Lines: 13
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  11. hsieh1@carson.u.washington.edu (Darrell Kirk) writes:
  12. : Excuse me if I'm a little behind on the cordless phone situation but, did
  13. : you know Radio Shack sells a voice-scrambling cordless telephone?   It's
  14. : quite inexpensive also, only $159.00, not bad considering Radio Shack's
  15. : reputation for high pricing.  
  16. : It seems odd that America's leading scanning radio supplier is one of the
  17. : first stores to feature such a telephone.
  18.  
  19. Is this the frequency inversion scrambler? If so, it takes a simple circuit
  20. costing $10-$20 to defeat it. Maybe no one else felt it was any real gain.
  21.  
  22. Bill
  23.