Re: DIY Wireless System Recommendations?

["KingFish" <al@xxxxxx>]

<yp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:904b151dfo7g2b40a9k7tegpl8m4cg50hp@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Thu, 21 May 2009 10:07:25 -0700 (PDT), tourman
> <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On May 21, 12:38 pm, y...@xxxxxx wrote:
>>> On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:17:34 -0700, "Crash Gordon"
>>>
>>> <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >You can 86 the cellphone idea, it won't work.
>>>
>>> >It will dial, you will answer and hear nothing or maybe a few bleeps
>>> >and
>>> >buzzes, it will hang up, and dial again and again and again, until it
>>> >fails
>>> >out and puts up an FC on the keypad. The FC will remain there until you
>>> >go
>>> >into programming and exit programming...every time. BTW...all this time
>>> >it's
>>> >trying to dial your wife at home will not be able to use the phone.
>>>
>>> >It will provide you with NO useful information when it calls your
>>> >cellphone,
>>> >NO you won't know if it's an alarm condition or a low battery or your
>>> >wife
>>> >bypassed something after you left home.
>>>
>>> >It may be easy to cut the phone line, but believe it or not they
>>> >usually don' - besides with your logic you're already beginning with a
>>> >cut phone line
>>> >:-)
>>>
>>> I am speaking of using a voice dialer to call my cellphone.
>>
>>RHC: Cripes ! ...spend $9 or $10 bucks monthly to have the thing
>>monitored properly. That way it works as it should and you get an
>>insurance discount on your property insurance, plus REAL protection,
>>not some totally unreliable cell phone bullsh*t. There are all sorts
>>of stations out there that will do your monitoring for next to nothing
>>leaving you to do the service and warranty work yourself..
>
> Until your phone line gets cut.  I would never get landline
> monitoring.  Why pay a monthly fee when a pair of cutters can do the
> trick.  Thats false security.
>
>>
>>What the hell is it about DIY'ers ? Why put in a professional system
>>and then cut it off at the knees....sheesh !!!!!
>
> You think a landline can't be cut at the knee's? Hah!  Its so simple
> even you can do it(I think).
>
don;t let him get to you,  he's a bitter old codger. ;)