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Re: Home Alarm Systems

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From: Joe Ilacqua
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:58
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In article <7567@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> limey@hri.com (Craig Hughes) writes:
<I know someone who has an ADT security system in their home. Apparently
>cutting the phone line will cause the alarm to be activated, and the
<monitoring station to be notified. Does anyone know how this is done?
>Obviously it can't be done via the phone line!

	They could always have a analog lease line and have the alarm
box send a constant tone over it.  If the line was cut they'd know it.

->Spike
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!aw.com!world!spike
From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Subject: Re: Home Alarm Systems
In-Reply-To: limey@hri.com's message of 5 Jan 93 16:25:35 GMT
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Sender: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:58:10 GMT
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