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Re: Remote Home monitoring via telephone!

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From: John Sparks
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 12:44
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In article <wYIvXgy00WB9EABp0b@andrew.cmu.edu> kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kurt A.
Geisel) writes:
>And then there is the para-legal "Infinity Transmitter" which does
>essentially the same thing, but you can, using a special tone encoder,
>connect directly to the room "microphone" WITHOUT THE PHONE EVER
>RINGING.  Without the tone encoder the telephone works normally!

I saw a book called (I believe) "The Big Brother Game" that had plans for
many type of bugging devices, and this was one of them. You might try a 
library.

>If you want to get really fancy, there's Steve Ciarcia's "Video Rover"
>system which uses his Imagewise image transmitter to give you a video
>picture of your home, complete with camera-aiming commands.

From what I understand the FCC prohibits any kind of unlicensed video
transmitter. I remember a project long ago in popular electronics on making a
video transmitter for your home, and there was a big stink over it after it was
published. Has this changed? 

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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
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Subject: Re: Remote Home monitoring via telephone!
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Date: 27 Apr 89 12:44:55 GMT
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