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

tvengr

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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

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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?
 

ratboy

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With the right conditions, who knows how far that signal may have ultimately traveled!
I remember in MT or PopComm they said the record was like 2100 miles or something crazy like that. I had a map taped to my wall next to my radios and I put a mark whenever I heard someone order pizza and give them an address that I could understand. My record was about 17 miles I think it was. I was in the South end of Toledo/Maumee, and I heard a girl order pizza way out east of me. I decided to verify the location and call the number to verify where it was, "Oops. wrong number!", and then call my friend who had a copy of the reverse directory and verify the name and address. They ate a lot of pizza at that house.
 

ratboy

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While I don't eat pizza, I'm a lifelong tomato/cheese and a whole bunch of other stuff hater, I have an "iron gut" and can eat anything I want, such as a dozen White Castle sliders, and a load of fries without even getting gassy. If I really want to take a time out from eating for 14-16 hours, nothing puts my gut to sleep better than Long John Silver's. a half dozen shrimp, 3 pieces of fish, the 2 hush puppies, and a fries will keep me from even being slightly hungry for at least 12 hours minimum. I have a lot of friends who eat a fish sandwich and they cry about heartburn or worse. One guy constantly has terrible heartburn, but seems to not understand if he takes some Tums before he eats he can minimize it. The only thing that gives me heartburn is to eat a banana and then lie down. Not fun at all.

My tomato hating goes back to when I was a baby. My mom used to make me spaghetti and I would spit it out, yell "NOOOO!", send the cup with it in it flying, and refuse to open my mouth, push it away, etc. She just couldn't understand that I hated it. One day, she put the plain noodles in a cup, got a phone call, and when she turned around, I was shoving the plain spaghetti into my mouth. "Oh, it's the sauce he doesn't like!" duh. At almost 69 years old, I have never, ever, swallowed a single bite of pizza, or anything else with tomato in it, since mom had her moment of clarity. I've had it in my mouth, but it's just disgusting. My list of hated food is a long one. Then there is the stuff I just don't know why anyone would want to eat it. But I don't hate it, poultry is one of those. Between those two lists, it's a lot of stuff I won't eat.
 

CECR1992

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While I don't eat pizza, I'm a lifelong tomato/cheese and a whole bunch of other stuff hater, I have an "iron gut" and can eat anything I want, such as a dozen White Castle sliders, and a load of fries without even getting gassy. If I really want to take a time out from eating for 14-16 hours, nothing puts my gut to sleep better than Long John Silver's. a half dozen shrimp, 3 pieces of fish, the 2 hush puppies, and a fries will keep me from even being slightly hungry for at least 12 hours minimum. I have a lot of friends who eat a fish sandwich and they cry about heartburn or worse. One guy constantly has terrible heartburn, but seems to not understand if he takes some Tums before he eats he can minimize it. The only thing that gives me heartburn is to eat a banana and then lie down. Not fun at all.

My tomato hating goes back to when I was a baby. My mom used to make me spaghetti and I would spit it out, yell "NOOOO!", send the cup with it in it flying, and refuse to open my mouth, push it away, etc. She just couldn't understand that I hated it. One day, she put the plain noodles in a cup, got a phone call, and when she turned around, I was shoving the plain spaghetti into my mouth. "Oh, it's the sauce he doesn't like!" duh. At almost 69 years old, I have never, ever, swallowed a single bite of pizza, or anything else with tomato in it, since mom had her moment of clarity. I've had it in my mouth, but it's just disgusting. My list of hated food is a long one. Then there is the stuff I just don't know why anyone would want to eat it. But I don't hate it, poultry is one of those. Between those two lists, it's a lot of stuff I won't eat.
Is this even related to cordless phones and high-power repeater usurper?
 
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