[FedCom] Cell Phones ON at POTUS event?

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Any ideal if the phones still functioned?  If you were to want a clean RF
environment and at the same time prevent someone from using a cell phone to
detonate an IAD then having the phones on would be a good thing.  With the
right controller you could capture the phone and force it to sit on one
channel. You could prevent it from getting a call from the outside world and
at the same time prevent it from transmitting except were you tell it to.
Since when you turn a cell phone on the first thing it does is come up and
start talking to the site this would be a good reason to have all of them on
and stable before the speech.  It would be interesting to know if one of the
newer trucks with the big antenna was parked next to the building. All a
guess but this is interesting...

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of ed
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 11:06 AM
To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications
Subject: [FedCom] Cell Phones ON at POTUS event?

a friend sent me this interesting piece of info.  anyone have any idea why 
this was instructed by federal officials?

 >I recently saw the president speak here in Chanhassen, Minnesota (hey,
it was free and I was bored on a saturday)

It was pretty dull, but here's the interesting part. Before the speech
started, they requested that everyone have their cell phones turned ON
during the speech. I'm honestly perplexed as to why this could be.
This obviously confused more people than just myself, as someone else
asked to clarify - indeed, they wanted all of our phones on.


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