Scanner Tales: Is that a cordless phone or a high-power repeater usurper?

[tvengr]

Yep, remember them well. Bell system.

Those were the days with the mobile operators. I heard a man call his wife and tell her that he was working late. Then. he immediately called another woman and told her, "Sweetheart, I am on my way!" I could have made some money. They gave the phone numbers to the mobile operator. All I needed was a crisscross directory and recorder.

 

[kc2asb]

Those were the days with the mobile operators. I heard a man call his wife and tell her that he was working late. Then. he immediately called another woman and told her, "Sweetheart, I am on my way!" I could have made some money. They gave the phone numbers to the mobile operator. All I needed was a crisscross directory and recorder.

The marine band telephone operators were fun to monitor also. A lot of activity in the NYC area, not surprisingly. Never heard anything really crazy,but obviously boaters knew they were going over a radio and had no expectation of privacy. Were users of these 152mhz radio telephones made aware that their calls could be monitored?