Larry,
I would first reach out to the public safety entity that manages the PSAP/911
system where the repeater is physically located. If they are OK with you
using an unactivated cellphone, there are several ways to accomplish what you
want. The terms relevant to the PSAP staff are UN-INITIALIZED and
NON-INITIALIZED phones. Both are going to cause inaccurate data to be
displays at the PSAP. It's several degrees worse then trying to explain you
are on a phone patch when calling 911.
* Un-initialized phones are wireless phones that were activated at one time
with a service plan and call back number. Previous user's information may
still appear when calling 9-1-1.
* Non-initialized phones have never been activated for service. These
phones may be purchased off the shelf. NI phones will display wholly random
information depending on who made the phone.
If you end up using a current production cellphone, Telular
<http://www.telular.com/> makes a device that provides a standard RJ-11 PSTN
interface. There are other manufacturers, but I am not sure they are
available to the end use.
Possibly adding a cellphone with the RJ-11 to one of the club member cell phone
accounts as a second phone might be a cheaper alternative to land-line service.
Martin
--- In [email protected], "larynl2" <lar...@...> wrote:
>
> In a few days we will be dropping dialtone service to our repeater. However,
> there is still a desire to somehow dial 911.
