tony dinkel wrote: > There are large companies here in So Cal that consider things like > Nextel walkie talkie an integral part of their emergency restoration > plan. There is nothing funnier than to be in a conference room with > a bunch of execs trying to talk to each other on their PTT cellphones > and thinking that its great. > > Then there was the non-english speaking plumber crew we had to my > house not long ago. They had Nextels, one guy was under my house, > almost underground, right up against my foundation, trying to talk to > the guy working on my kitchen sink, with the radios not much more > than 6 feet from each other. The radios were spewing stuff I > couldn't understand even if they were speaking english. Obviously, > they couldn't understand each other either because they had to resort > to screaming through the floor and stomping their feet to > communicate. > > Lets stick with analog and fall back to simplex when we need to. > Because the message has to get through the first time! There may not > be a second chance. > > Sorry for the BW. > > td
That's OK-Nextel as you know it now will be gone in a couple of years. Sprint will be migrating the iDEN people to CDMA once rebanding is done. Maybe sooner. All those iDEN phones will be useless. -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
