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often see car phones in early 60s onwards customs and what not
how did they work??
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Witchcraft and hollywood magic!!!!!
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You picked them up, dialed the number you wanted on a funny spinning-disk thing, and talked into them when someone answered.
Oh, I see what you mean - no cells back then. Dunno but they must have been analogue radio based so best guess would be radio links available in big cities. Bandwidth wouldn't have needed to be much cos they weren't exactly in everyone's cars.
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There used to be a system called Rabbit in London (edit: though according to Wikipedia it wasn't in London  ). London Car Telephones who used to advertise all the time with epic ads on Capital FM became Carphone Warehouse. |
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So can one of the cleverer guys on here hook up a relatively elderly mobile 'phone into an old carphone and use the speakers and mic or something?
It just might make me use a phone when I'm out the house! (Though of course, not while driving!)
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A friend of mine has an e34 5 series with a car phone, not sure how it picks up the sygnal, or if it still works, but you can literally just plug your house phone into the socket in it. It's awesome.
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wow. a bt socket in a car?
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wow. a bt socket in a car? Well, it was the kinda standard socket for where the handset goes into the body of the phone. Rather than the one in the wall. |
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wow. a bt socket in a car? Well, it was the kinda standard socket for where the handset goes into the body of the phone. Rather than the one in the wall. You'd need a heck of a long extension lead. |
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Those old car phones had a massive box in the boot which was about the size and weight of a well-stocked toolbox. This contained essentially a very large and primitive version of the same internals which are in a modern mobile phone, except they worked on a very different frequency of radio waves.
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often see car phones in early 60s onwards customs and what not how did they work?? By retro car phone, I pressume you mean back in the 80's ? I won't bore you with a full and detailed answer, so some links below  Early / mid-80's comms technology was based on TACS & ETACS ( = 1G technology ) & yes large battery's required and an amp in the boot of the car normally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Access_Communication_System Then came the first digital networks in the UK using GSM ( = 2G technology ) First proper pocket handsets, truely portable & 'mobile' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSMAnd finally where we're at right now UMTS ( = 3G technology ) like having a mini computer in your pocket..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Mobile_Telecommunications_SystemAnd the Emergency services use a Tetra ( Military originated & developed ) system en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio But believe me, when the so called ( LTE ) 4G arrives ;D all round ! As for the 'really' early phones used in films & police shows back in the 50's & 60's etc, I'd pressumed they were over UHF or shortwave J ;D |
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My old man had a D reg 205 GTI brand new for a company car. It had fitted a car phone.
It was cool for the time. He used to get people call him just so they can see what it was like. I also remember with his first one that it had a memory of about 50 numbers. Only thing was that it couldn't remember the names associated with each number so they supplied a card that you attached to the inside of the sun visor to write the names in to a box for each memory space.
One that the unit was about the same size of an old VCR unit.
He had a few more after that and they quickly advanced. The last true car phone was also an anologue mobile phone that went in to a purpose built plug with hands free etc and a power booster. By this time the unit was the size of my dads filofax.
I think he had a few anologue mobile phones before the digital era came in I guess mid 90's
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