HI Dallas,   
      
   YOu wrote:   
      
   DH> Excellent -- so, has anyone managed to get an analog modem to talk   
   DH> through a cell connection? I've lost several users who've dropped   
   DH> their hard-wired lines and then couldn't use a modem!  And thanks to   
   DH> Microsoft, they don't know how to use Telnet (and it doesn't even   
   DH> come built into Windows 7!).    
      
     Don't get me started on that.  But, it seems to   
   be difficult to do anything about interconnecting a cell   
   phone with other devices.  A few hams I know who have quite   
   liberal cell phone calling plans have wanted to offer phone   
   patch services for the folks at sea, missionaries, both   
   medical and otherwise, etc. on ham radio as has been a   
   traditional part of our service offerings to those folks,   
   but using their cell instead of their landline based   
   connections.   
   Queries I"ve seen re connecting a phone patch to a cell have come up pretty   
   dry as well.   
      
   Even acoustic coupling is sort of problematic with these   
   things.   
      
   GOod topic starter!!!   
      
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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