[amsat-bb] Re: Noise problem

[Jim Jerzycke]

Doesn't Marti Lane, ON4UN, work for Nokia?
Jim  KQ6EA


--- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 23, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
> 
> > My neighbor at work drives me up the wall playing
> with his
> > cellphone.  I have to listen closely to it to be
> able to tell that
> > it's not 5 WPM CW.  ;-)  (And it's just the right
> pitch to sound sort
> > of like a navaid beacon on the aviation bands too
> .. which gets my
> > brain really confused.)
> 
> Many Nokia cell phones' "Loud and Long" ring tone
> setting sends  
> "Connecting People" in 5 WPM CW.
> 
> Always wondered the history behind that... hams at
> Nokia?  :-)
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr - WY0X
> nate@natetech.com
> 
> 
> 
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