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Re: GAK
Lucky Green writes:
> Most telephones can be used to monitor conversations in the room they are
> installed in even while on-hook. No need to ever enter the premises. Just
> drive it with AC. Look at your basic telephone diagram and remember
> Xc=1/(omega*C) from your AC circuits class.
The phrase "most telephones" may have been accurate when it meant "500
sets", but now that people generally own electronic phones I wonder
whether the lucky one's statement remains true. (It might; I'm an
electronics ignoramus.)
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