Article View: alt.cellular.attws
Article #321Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
From: JC Dill
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:56
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:56
24 lines
2392 bytes
2392 bytes
nospam wrote: > In article <dbw0o.19896$lS1.7928@newsfe12.iad>, Todd Allcock > <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote: > >>>> I used to carry my bagphone to the food court just outside the >>>> store and "make a call". The powerful 3 watt AMPS monster swamped >>>> out of the store's cheater repeater....(c;] >>> nope. bag phones were limited to 1.2 watts and handhelds to 0.6 watts. >>> only carphones could do 3 watts. >> Huh? Bagphones, from manufacturers like Motorola and Nokia, were >> literally "bag phones"- a car phone shoveled into a bag with a big-ass >> 12V lead-acid battery to power it. > > yep, i have one somewhere. i can't believe people carried those things. I didn't "carry" mine - it lived on the center of the seat of my truck. > as i recall, the fcc limited output power to 0.6w on a handheld, 1.2w > on a bagphone and 3w on a car phone. You recall wrong. Circa 1992-1994 you could buy a 3 watt bag phone. I'm told that circa 1990 you could buy a 5 watt bag phone. jc
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<i1u8ij$7h1$3@speranza.aioe.org>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!not-for-mailReferences:
<Xns9DB610031F9CCnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <i1m8iq$q7u$1@news.eternal-september.org> <2gd246h1dm904pbp9mm4a6hse2hk6hqfmp@4ax.com> <Xns9DB8EB62D8FF7noonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <180720100001450673%nospam@nospam.invalid> <dbw0o.19896$lS1.7928@newsfe12.iad> <180720100149520637%nospam@nospam.invalid>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 110038,d8a6e883f28322e7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: fa874,d8a6e883f28322e7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gidd668eef4dc,gidaa617e85ca,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.attws,ba.internet Subject: Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:56:20 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: <i1u8ij$7h1$3@speranza.aioe.org> References: <Xns9DB610031F9CCnoonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <i1m8iq$q7u$1@news.eternal-september.org> <2gd246h1dm904pbp9mm4a6hse2hk6hqfmp@4ax.com> <Xns9DB8EB62D8FF7noonehomecom@74.209.131.13> <180720100001450673%nospam@nospam.invalid> <dbw0o.19896$lS1.7928@newsfe12.iad> <180720100149520637%nospam@nospam.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: OMIq7WZIH71VZQpBoAm01Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228)