[NJARC] Gripe of the day

[AMCMATADOR at aol.com]

And I will never forget that summer day in 2006, when  I  was living in 
Staten Island. When the northeast, from North Jersey, to Mass,  lost 
power(again). You would not believe the number of folks in the street,  in a semi 
panic. I was working in my garage, with the door open. A magical thing  
happened. The phone RANG! I answered it, (an out of state call), but within  a few 
moments, several neighbors came to "marvel", that I had a working phone.  
They had heard it ring. In their hands, were cell phones, with no  signal. 
(Repeaters you see, were not required to have backup power in those  days). 
Their home phones, all cordless with line powered base stations,  would not work 
either. SO, they all made their calls from that carbon based,  rotary 
dialed black telephone, that was hanging on the garage wall. One even  
complained, that it was not touch tone. I only wish I had a coinbox! 
 
  So in short (perhaps a bad choice of words when discussing  phones).... I 
am in full agreement, I will give up, the carbon based,  copper connected 
land line, when they cut the cable from my cold dead  fingers!!!  
 
 
 
 
 
 
"They had said that it couldn't happen again, in 1965, Then again in 1978.. 
 In 2006, they said "It might happen again". 
 
 
In a message dated 5/16/2011 12:09:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Billoradio at aol.com writes:

Just  remember 
Reply = Poster
Reply All =  Everyone

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I'll  bet they could miniaturize it to where it fits on the end of a   
toothpick, try and use it then. I already have to hire a contortionist,  
short,  
thin person with a flat head to work on my car. 
I lose  the voice inflection when talking on a call phone. It's tough to   
talk to a customer when you cant hear their reaction to know if your going  
in  
the direction they wish.

Put a 12AX7 in it and that should  fix it.

Bill  O

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He--o   Rob,
-his is  Jo  -ro telling -ou I ag-ee wit w-ha  --u said  an- 
go-d  poi--

Th-s mess-ae brought to yo- wi--  cellfo--   -echnology!

Jo- Cr
----- Original Message -----  
From: "Rob  Flory" <robandpj at earthlink.net>
To: "New Jersey  Antique Radio Club"  <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May  16, 2011 8:03  AM
Subject: [NJARC] Gripe of the day


>  Just remember
>  Reply = Poster
> Reply All =  Everyone
>
>   _________________________________________________________
> This  would  be a perfect Andy Rooney topic.
>
> I am fed up with  poor voice  quality and the loss of full duplex on 
>  telephones.  I get  messages from people I can't identify, even when  
they 
> have said their  name.  If you sniffle or there is  noise in the 
background 
> it  trips the semi-duplex and  interrupts what the other person is 
saying. 
>  Or if you say  something to the other person you end up both listening 
to 

> dead  air and starting over with, "hello, hello, can you hear me   now".
>
> KMA
>
> You can have my 70-year-old   carbon-based telephone and the landline it 
is 
> hooked up to when  you  pry it from my cold dead fingers.  Don't give up 
> your  landline  if you want to have a decent phone conversation.  Don't  
take 
> it  personally if I ask you to call me back on a real  phone.  I am not  
> pissed at you, but at your phone  company.
>
>   RF


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