Around the 1970s, I had an RCC repeater on 152.12/158.58 MHz in
Central New York that I used both for paging with Pageboys and Bell &
Howell pagers and for mobile service to a handful of users. Most of
the RCCs owned telephone answering bureaus so we already had "mobile
operators" who patched calls through our answering switchboards. For
the small operations that many of us had, it was more of a hobby and
a convenience to our telephone answering subscribers. Our transceiver
was a big old RCA (500?) that withstood lots of lightning storms and
only required a change of its single tube once a year. The days were
old, good, and a lot of fun. (And I had to sell my little 250-station
magneto telephone company before I could start the RCC because of the
separate eligibility requirements for landline and non-landline
channels.)
Paul Yonge W2ARK
MIDLAKES REPEATER
On Mar 26, 2006, at 12:24 AM, Eric Lemmon wrote:
> To make a call, I had to key the handset for a few seconds, and
> wait for the mobile operator
> to respond. That was not much more sophisticated than a magneto
> telephone!
> I eventually got kicked off the system because there were only a
> handful of
> people using the manual MTS- everyone was scrambling to get on the
> IMTS
> bandwagon. Ah, yes... Those were the good old days.
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