[BC] Kirk Harnack's side tone comment

[Kirk Harnack]

Alan Alsobrook wrote:
> Actually I've found that when your call starts to drop in ant out due to 
> weak signal if you speak softer much more of it gets through on a 
> digital signal.
> 
> Also they used to have side tone on Analog Cellular stuff, and then one 
> day they just turned it off. And Wow those hybrids they were using had 
> an extremely high rejection ratio. Nothing could be heard coming back.

I strongly suspect that cell phone manufacturers - always embroiled in a 
numbers game of who has the longest battery life - discovered that side 
tone sucked more battery power.  Less audio to amplify = longer battery 
life.   They should have made it selectable ON or OFF.

Kirk