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| Thread ID: 86540 | 2008-01-20 08:56:00 | Answer phone/machine | Neil McC (178) | PC World Chat |
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| 632120 | 2008-01-21 18:06:00 | Thanks for all your comments.I think I'll have to find one that doesn't require keeping close to the floor:) I know what my wife would say if I turned up with a 3 unit combo!! |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 632121 | 2008-01-21 19:00:00 | Ahah. There is a knack to using those UHF phones in a strong wind. Because of the higher frequency, the wave length of the transmitted signal is pretty short. When used in the calm weather-mode (Antenna uppermost, at head height for a standard adult) the signals encounter stronger winds for the top part of the signal, due to the increasing wind speed with height above ground level. The lower part of the signal is in relatively calmer air since it is nearer to the ground. This causes some of the message to be delayed relative to the rest. So, if you have a head wind, the high notes are arriving after the low notes, and your message sounds like txt speak. In extreme cases you will get the answer before you ask the question. Fortunately for us, in Wellington they have done some extensive testing of this phenomenon under some pretty frisky breezes. The answer appears to be disarmingly simple. Hold the phone right at ground level, and the wind speed is low enough to have a minimal effect. (Ostriches and politicians do this more or less by reflex.) There is one proviso, do not use this technique while crossing the road. Probably a bit risky in some suburbs of San Francisco too. So true,whilst in Frisco I dropped my keys and found it wise to kick them all the way home,tricky but better than what would have happened if I had bent over to pick them up. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 632122 | 2008-01-21 19:12:00 | The answer appears to be disarmingly simple. Hold the phone right at ground level, and the wind speed is low enough to have a minimal effect. (Ostriches and politicians do this more or less by reflex.) I disagree with that solution. You are forgetting that a lot of people, politicians in particular, generate their own personal high wind speed halfway between ground level and their ear. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 632123 | 2008-01-21 19:13:00 | Thanks for all your comments.I think I'll have to find one that doesn't require keeping close to the floor:) I know what my wife would say if I turned up with a 3 unit combo!! Aw, Neil. One for the garage, one for the bedroom and one for the kitchen. :rolleyes: :cool: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 632124 | 2008-01-21 19:20:00 | SJ's problem may not be helped by the 115v thing. And politicians are differentiated by the gas flow (either) being heavily mixed with solids, this is beyond a phone's ability to counter. It may be helpful to recall that with sales talk and politicians utterings, that "conversation" is mostly "converse" which is in this case synonymous with both perverse and reverse. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 632125 | 2008-01-21 19:53:00 | What was the question again? | Cicero (40) | ||
| 632126 | 2008-01-21 20:35:00 | Life, the . . . | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 632127 | 2008-01-21 23:44:00 | Aw, Neil. One for the garage, one for the bedroom and one for the kitchen. :rolleyes: :cool: Thanks Foxy. I'd say 2 for the bedroom, as the phone has to be on her side of the bed, as it is:waughh: I think I've just realised something.These other phones don't need to be plugged into the phone line ,do they? Which means I could get rid of the ugly conduit across from the house to the garage! Is that correct? |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 632128 | 2008-01-21 23:55:00 | Yep, that's correct. I just popped out to the garage to check. The main phone is the only one you need to plug into a phone line, the others only require a power point to plug into. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 632129 | 2008-01-22 00:12:00 | Thanks, I'm off back to DSE.:thumbs: Any advantage in having the higher 5.8GHz ones? |
Neil McC (178) | ||
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