[BC] Kirk Harnack's side tone comment

[Alan Alsobrook]

I was referring to the sidetone that came back from the Cell site. Not 
that I ever listened to Cell calls or anything like that for anything 
other than required testing purposes. You could at one time easily hear 
both sides of the conversation coming from the cell site. Then one day 
the person on the cell just vanished. All you could hear was the caller 
and not the person on the Cell. When it first started happening side 
tone would be there one day and gone the next, and then back again a 
week later, or one site would have it on while the next site would have 
it off.  It didn't seem to be a carrier by carrier option, but more a 
site by site one. As a cell user it was also very noticeable when the 
side tone was turned off, and quite agitating until you got used to it.

Kirk Harnack wrote:
> Alan Alsobrook wrote:
>> 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.
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Alan Alsobrook CSRE CBNT
St. Augustine Fl. 32086 904-829-8885
aalso at Bellsouth.net