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  1. #16
    The Real Bev
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    Re: detecting hidden sat nav or phone in car

    Rod Speed wrote:

    > Robert Peffers. <[email protected]> wrote
    >>
    >> However did we manage when we didn't have car-phones?

    >
    > I hiked a considerable distance to a pay phone myself.
    >
    >> Hell I can remember when the only cars in the village were the Doctors, the district nurse, the
    >> ambulance and of course the bookie and the publican.


    Why would a tavern-owner/bartender need a carphone? Housecalls?

    > Just as true of houses, clothes, domesticated animals, etc etc etc.


    It's interesting to watch old movies -- no cell phones, no computers, no
    databases for the finders-of-evildoers to search...

    Men's suits hit a high point during the 60s and early 70s, though. God help
    you if you weren't skinny enough to look good in one.

    --
    Cheers,
    Bev
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    Will give investment advice for food.



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  2. #17
    David Chamberlain
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    Re: detecting hidden sat nav or phone in car

    Ivor Jones wrote:
    > "Frank Tabor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news[email protected]
    >> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:03:26 +0000, Ivor Jones wrote:

    >
    > [snip]
    >
    >>> There are also vast areas with *no* signal at all..!
    >>>
    >>> Ivor

    >> I'm sot so sure about that. I and friend go out west
    >> every fall and car camp throughout Utah, Colorado, New
    >> Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. He uses an old trimode
    >> Tracphone, (prepaid) and I can only remember one or two
    >> places that we were that he couldn't get service of some
    >> sort.
    >>
    >> As far as analog goes, there are some areas that don't
    >> have coverage, but not very many.

    >
    > I can show you a few in California.
    >
    > Ivor


    A great deal of eastern Oregon, except near some towns, have little or
    no cellular coverage, analog or digital.
    --
    David Chamberlain



  3. #18
    Robert Peffers.
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    Re: detecting hidden sat nav or phone in car


    "David Chamberlain" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...
    > Ivor Jones wrote:
    >> "Frank Tabor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >> news[email protected]
    >>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:03:26 +0000, Ivor Jones wrote:

    >>
    >> [snip]
    >>
    >>>> There are also vast areas with *no* signal at all..!
    >>>>
    >>>> Ivor
    >>> I'm sot so sure about that. I and friend go out west
    >>> every fall and car camp throughout Utah, Colorado, New
    >>> Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. He uses an old trimode
    >>> Tracphone, (prepaid) and I can only remember one or two
    >>> places that we were that he couldn't get service of some
    >>> sort.
    >>>
    >>> As far as analog goes, there are some areas that don't
    >>> have coverage, but not very many.

    >>
    >> I can show you a few in California.
    >>
    >> Ivor

    >
    > A great deal of eastern Oregon, except near some towns, have little or no
    > cellular coverage, analog or digital.
    > --
    > David Chamberlain

    This may come as a shock to you but the USA is not the World.
    --

    Robert Peffers,
    Kelty,
    Fife,
    Scotland, (UK).





  4. #19
    Stephen Firth
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    Re: detecting hidden sat nav or phone in car

    David Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote:

    > A great deal of eastern Oregon, except near some towns, have little or
    > no cellular coverage, analog or digital.


    That depends, I get a perfectly good signal in those areas both for
    Inmarsat and Iridium.



  5. #20
    Ivor Jones
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    Re: detecting hidden sat nav or phone in car

    "Robert Peffers." <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]
    > "David Chamberlain" <[email protected]>
    > wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > Ivor Jones wrote:
    > > > "Frank Tabor" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > > > news[email protected]
    > > > > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:03:26 +0000, Ivor Jones
    > > > > wrote:
    > > >
    > > > [snip]
    > > >
    > > > > > There are also vast areas with *no* signal at
    > > > > > all..! Ivor
    > > > > I'm sot so sure about that. I and friend go out
    > > > > west every fall and car camp throughout Utah,
    > > > > Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. He uses
    > > > > an old trimode Tracphone, (prepaid) and I can only
    > > > > remember one or two places that we were that he
    > > > > couldn't get service of some sort.
    > > > >
    > > > > As far as analog goes, there are some areas that
    > > > > don't have coverage, but not very many.
    > > >
    > > > I can show you a few in California.
    > > >
    > > > Ivor

    > >
    > > A great deal of eastern Oregon, except near some towns,
    > > have little or no cellular coverage, analog or digital.
    > > --
    > > David Chamberlain


    > This may come as a shock to you but the USA is not the
    > World.


    I'm well aware of that, I'm in the UK. But we are talking about areas of
    the US that are without coverage.

    Ivor





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