[NJARC] Gripe of the day

[Scott Roberts]

And don't forget- Wireless phones, cellular phones and ones which use a powered base go OFFLINE when the power goes out due to downed wires- where hardwired phones stay working, unless the physical phone line goes out!
SAR

--- On Mon, 5/16/11, Rob Flory <robandpj at earthlink.net> wrote:

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