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>From: David Brodbeck <gull@CYBERSPACE.ORG>
>Reply-To: David Brodbeck <gull@CYBERSPACE.ORG>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: cell phones (was:FGA)
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:07:58 -0500
>
>My general advice in cell phones for rural travel is to get an analog
>phone.  You'll have a hard time finding anyone who will sell you one, but
>vast parts of the country have only analog service and no digital.
>Anywhere more than ten miles from an interstate highway is iffy for
>digital.  Easily half of Michigan has only analog cell service.  Some
>areas don't even have that.
>
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>   __ _ _   _| | |  | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE)              Ypsilanti, MI
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>  |___/             pessimist, the glass is half empty.  To the engineer,
>                    the glass is twice as big as it needs to be."

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