Re: Re: [NSW] Guards & Mobile phones

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
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> remember electromagnetic waves and static charges don't go into metal
cages. In the case of
> non-Tangara rolling stock, they are literally, metal cages.

Why the reference to non-Tangaras?

Tangaras are stainless steel, just with a different finish. All Sydney
electric rolling stock (Tullock trailers excepted) are stainless steel. So
the material they are manufactured in *should* be irrelevant. Different
manufacturing processes could be a factor, agreed.

> with S and some K sets (the non A/C) it's a little better because you have
the opening windows.

Have not noticed a difference with the windows.

Dave

> Dave Proctor got bored on Fri, 19 May 2000 12:31:57 GMT and so wrote the
following:
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>           "Andy B" <and_b@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
>           3925315f$0$2632@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3925315f$0$2632@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
>           > ... awaits crosspost to aus.comms.mobile for argument on how
Optus
>           > does/doesn't cover the CityRail network.
>
>           Duly added.
>
>           It doesn't, I dropped out 5 times last night between Central and
>           Strathfield. Admittedly, it was in a V-set (the greatest train
in Australia,
>           btw), since it was the 2002 Lithgow train. I have found the
V-sets (the
>           greatest trains in Australia, btw) to be particularly bad for
mobile phone
>           operation. The Tangarbages are good, the S/R/K/C sets are not as
good as
>           Tangarbages, but the V-sets (the greatest trains in Australia,
btw) are the
>           worst.
>
>           I wonder if it has something to do with the construction of the
carriages
>           having something to do with it. Since they are all stainless
steel, I cannot
>           see how, but you never know. Since the C, K, R, S and V (the
greatest trains
>           in Australia, btw) sets all have the same basic construction
style, and the
>           Tangarbages are somewhat different, could this be a factor?
>
>           Dave
>
>           > --
>           > Andrew R Blume          and_b@dingoblue.net.au          ICQ:
28503437
>           > "Good news everybody! Several years ago I tried to log on to
AOL. And it
>           > just went through!" - Prof Farnsworth, Futurama
>           >
>           > "Anita Lukaszyk" <neety@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
>           > 392527B9.9813E82E@ozemail.com.au">news:392527B9.9813E82E@ozemail.com.au...
>           >
>           > > I heard that all CityRail train crew were being issued with
Optus
>           mobiles.
>           > I
>           > > dunno if/when that's gonna happen...
>           >
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