16 Feb
2004
16 Feb
'04
12:53 a.m.
On Sunday 15 February 2004 23:53, William Donzelli wrote:
I'd LOVE to get my hands on some CO equipment, but I'm afraid I've got
neither the time/$$$ nor space right now to keep it (nor would I
probably be able to find a manual or something if it was anything newer
than relay-driven).
Pat
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Purdue University ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/
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.