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nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:180720102032033111%
nospam@nospam.invalid:

> In article <Xns9DB9CA05FD3AAnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13>, Larry
> <noone@home.com> wrote:
> 
>> > specific model?
>> 
>> Motorola TX200
> 
> 3 watts, not 5.
> 
> <http://www.motorola3watts.com/product_info.php?products_id=34>
> 

12 watts ERP, actually.  I have a 6dbd, not i, antenna for it. 

NOTHING beats AMPS for making beautiful phone calls on 850 
Mhz.....Nothing ever will.

Out in the country, I carried a 25' long telescoping aluminum pool 
vacuum handle with an end-mounted 12 element DB Products 850 Mhz point-
to-point paging antenna yagi.  I mounted many of them on TV masts on 
Edisto Island, SC, on beach houses pointed back towards the "home 
system" on a 500' tall tower at Citadel Mall where SC7 meets US17 on the 
south side of the city.  Perfect phone calls WITHOUT paying the shitty 
little rinkydink country phone company $3.50/min to call Charleston from 
40 miles away on the beach.  We bought the "data interconnect" for the 
bagphones that connected standard telephone lines (made for modems but 
any phone would work) to the bagphone's transceiver.  Even the 
touchtones on the house phones worked normally.  The interface provided 
all the phones in the beachhouse with a dialtone (fake), you dialed as 
if you were in Charleston locally, the interconnect decoded the 
touchtones and made the call on AMPS.  When all the phones hung up, the 
call terminated like pressing [END]

Many of those DB Product antennas are still on masts over old 
beachhouses down there.  They were on the air the day GTE Wireless and 
Alltel terminated AMPS service and simply went dark, a sad occasion, 
indeed.  They worked perfectly because we could point the beam at 
Charleston and put the Savannah, GA system in the null so Charleston was 
stronger and the bagphones on HOME ONLY so they'd only connect to 
Charleston, even on nights the groundwave ducting made Savannah strong.

The yagis were around 13 dbd, gamma match shunt fed by the unbalanced 
line.  DC ground, they made the phones survive all but direct lightning 
hits over the years.  When someone in Charleston called the local 
cellphone number, all the phones in the beachhouse rang out....(c;]

13 db above 3 watts, call it 2 watts at the end of the coax up on the 
roof = 2 x 20 = 40 watts ERP.  Power is our friend, you know....(c;]


-- 
iPhone 4 is to cellular technology what the Titanic is to cruise ships.

Larry