My Motorola bag phone had a three Watt transmitter, 6 inch antenna, and a battery the size of a large brick of cheese. That battery was four times the size of your whole cell phone, maybe more. The thing worked anywhere. Its fringe area coverage was great because of the 3 Watt output and the long antenna. Today's little cell phones have a 0.6 Watt transmitter and a tiny antenna inside the body of the phone. That explains why so many times you can hear the caller but he can't hear you. The cell node transmitter has more power than you so it can get a signal to your phone, but your phone has so little power and such a wimpy, little antenna it can't get a signal back to the node.

My bag phone never had that problem. It worked in areas that the little phones couldn't. A group of us went to northern Wisconsin a few years back and my phone was the only one that could get through back in the woods. All four of their small phones couldn't do it. Their phones would ring - the cell node could find and ring them - but you couldn't hold a conversation. The bag phone was solid as a rock.



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