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- From: jonz@edsi.plexus.COM (Jon Ziepke)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: modem schematics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.143601.9655@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 14:36:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Aug19.143601.9655
- References: <85917@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Aug14.230316.9642@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
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- >Mary.Hicks@f222.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG writes:
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- >>Currently I am interested in Building My own modem (any speed will do),
- >>but in order to learn, I need to start off with some MODEM SCEMATICS.
- >>Can someout there please e-mail me some addresses of companies, that
- >>sell MODEM SCEMATICS? This would be very helpful to me. Does radio shack
- >>sell MODEM SCEMATICS? THANKS!
-
- >Sorry, but you *can't* do that. To legally hook it to the phone system,
- >it has to be FCC approved. And *you* would have to be an FCC licensed
- >technician.
-
- >*IF* you can find a source for an FCC approved DAA (Data Access
- >Arrangement) then you could hook up through it. DAAs are basicly a
- >"black box" for interfacing unlicensed gear to the phone system.
-
- Not true, anybody can have a modem or answering machine FCC certified,
- we have to do it all the time since we manufature phone line monitores
- as well as payphone type of systems. The only problem here is that you
- can buy a pretty darn good modem for the price of getting one FCC
- certified.
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