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- 03-07-2007, 06:40 PM #16The Real BevGuest
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.
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Cheers,
Bev
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- 03-20-2007, 10:05 PM #17David ChamberlainGuest
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.
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David Chamberlain
- 03-21-2007, 03:16 AM #18Robert Peffers.Guest
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.
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Robert Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).
- 03-21-2007, 04:29 AM #19Stephen FirthGuest
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.
- 03-21-2007, 11:25 AM #20Ivor JonesGuest
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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