February 2008
----- Original Message ----- From: Jim To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] bag phone for repeater 911 Thomas Oliver wrote: > I scored a bunch of old analog bag phones at Dayton and was wondering > if anyone has interfaced these to thier repeater for 911. I think it > would be a worthwhile project but with the number of cell phone > everyone has I don't know how much use if any it would get. These > phones do not seem to have any extra ports ot hook up outboard stuff > but there are some motorola phones that use a standard DB25 connector > that don't have wires on all the pins. > > tom I hate to say it, Tom, but I wouldn't put much into it. Analog Cellular will likely go away in a few years. I keep forgetting the exact date, but at that date, carriers will no longer be required to keep analog channels on their system, which pretty much guarantees they'll be gone. Right now, the only reason they still work is the carriers are required to keep some analog channels up. -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
