15 Feb
2004
15 Feb
'04
10:53 p.m.
Setting up a celular base station while not trivial is
not impossible.
The hardest part is the RF Tx and Rx sections, of which you need at
least two if you want to place calls and three if you want to place a
call to another phone on the same base. 50 to 75 years from now the
cell phone collectors should be able to make their own base stations
and route calls to other like minded people via their ever-on
broadband network connections.
I doubt it will happen. Telephone collectors are an odd bunch - most,
nearly all, completely ignore any phone equipment beyond, well, the
telephone. There are extremely few that care about CO equipment.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org