"Keith" wrote:

You mean this quote, Rosalie? "Every boat, car and truck should have a
cigarette lighter-powered ol'
reliable bagphone stashed away in it somewhere."

Who wrote that?

I believe YOU should read it, and figure out what I'm responding to.

I shouldn't have to figure out what you were responding to - and I
wouldn't have to if you quoted some small part of what it was.

The post right above your post said
!
!A few years back I discovered the NAM module in my Technophone is in
!the handset, not the aluminum transciever box, so I bought two more
!"antique" Technophones on EBay for $20, keep them in my cars as 911
!devices, and switch the handset for my "live" one on long trips, to
!stay in touch. They use old "brick" camcorder batteries, so that's
!not been a problem. I'm into desert exploring, and with an 8inch(?)
!rubber ducky antenna, using a Jeep hood as a counterpoise, have been
!able to punch out to towers when the pocket cellphone folks can't
!get a signal at all. Once made a (marginally intelligible) callfrom
!a remote mountaintop where the nearest tower was over 40 miles away
!(but line-of-sight), technically impossible using digital.

I don't see the 'every boat.. should have' quote anywhere, so I've
either deleted it, or it was way back in the thread.

Rosalie B. wrote:
"Keith" wrote:

Why in the world would you want a 911 only cell phone on the water,
when you should have a VHF, preferable interfaced with a GPS to call
for help?

He said that they were for his cars. Read for content instead of just
reacting.