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phone and radio died...

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From: Susan Sterngold
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 00:00
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I have a weird experience to report-please reply by private email if you 
can shed any light on this one. I live in Rockland county NY and commute 
via NY State Thruway. On Wed 2/14 there was a little snowstorm and I 
called from my car to tell work I would be late. About 5 min later my 
cell phone died. I would try to access and got a fast metallic busy when 
I tried to activate my code etc. Could not get 611 or 911 either! Then 
the radio died. All of a sudden there was just static. So I thought OK, 
I'll listen to a tape. No luck. Tape went in and played static thru 
speakers. This was very strange. So I got to work, went inside for a few 
hours, came out to my car and my radio and phone were back. OK, so it was 
a fluke. On my way home the phone did not work again, same problem. There 
is a blasting zone on the thruway but they were not doing it as I drove 
thru. SO the next day I called ATT Wireless and they told me someone had 
cloned my phone so I needed a new PIN. I gave them a new PIN and still my 
phone did not work this morning. I called them again and he told me to go 
get my phone to test it--then it worked fine. Later on it didn't work 
again. Then tonight my radio died again. I am thinking maybe there is 
some kind of weird force field in my car. I don;t think there is anything 
wrong with either the flipphone or the radio, but my phone worked great 
till 2 days ago. It is not a dead spot on the thruway as it was dead for 
10 miles or more-lasted till I got to work. Anyone have any ideas???
thanks--pls reply to susanste@cloud9.net
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From: Susan Sterngold <susanste@cloud9.net>
Subject: phone and radio died...
Date: 1996/02/16
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