A friend of mine has a cabin in rural Canada. I connected a bag phone to a 900Mhz cordless phone using the Motorola interface they used to sell. He put the bag phone up high in the top floor of the cabin and takes the cordless phone around with him (even out on the boat). It works great, but will not as soon as they shut down analog. He has a heart condition and needs the phone. I don't know what we will do, as we needed the 3 watt phone and mag mount antenna to get reliable service.
73, Joe, K1ike -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Ronny Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > They used to sell bag phones with an RJ-11 port built in. A customer of > mine had a home type answering machine plugged in to his so he didn't > have to use our voice mail system.
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They used to sell bag phones with an RJ-11 port built in. A customer of
mine had a home type answering machine plugged in to his so he didn't
have to use our voice mail system.
Benjamin Naber wrote:
> I'm curious how they got the auto patches to work with
> the cell phones, the wire pin-outs and so on. I do
> suppose it wouldn't be such a daunting task if one
> figured out for the digital phones that have data
> cables with DB-9 connectors. I would like to be
> enlightened from someone out there has done it before
> for the analog phones.
>
> The bag phones actually have a lot of useful parts in
> them, with just a few modifications, they can be
> readily made for 902MHz operation. Before I got
> deployed to waste-land Iraq (you can see many pictures
> of how trashy the cities are) I was working on one
> such myself. Granted they may not be for someone who
> has the money it to just go buy a 900MHz machine
> because of the time involved, but it is fun to work
> with these.
>
> I'm also working on a project to make a full duplex
> and simplex voice operation in the 900MHz amateur
> band. One does learn alot when accomplishing such a
> task. http://www.qsl.net/n9zia <http://www.qsl.net/n9zia > is such a
> site devoted
> to things such as these. Very, very informative.
>
> I've got *several* bag phones and once out of the army
> (12 hour days and you wanna come home and just spend
> the little time with the family) and have a normal
> 10-6 life, I am going to pursue on a large scale
> working on the conversions. I'm happy I brought
> several of my books over here to learn about this neat
> stuff...
>
> ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
>
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> ~Ben, KB9LFZ
>
> Got your radio on and "listening?"
> Then KEY the radio and and make some noise!
>
> Keep Amateur Radio Alive - USE IT DAILY!!!
>
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