I used to have call waiting.I could set my webtv so that it would
automatically disconnect from the phone line so I could answer my
phone.Then,when I got through using my phone,I would press a key on my
keyboard and dial right on back on to the internet and I wouldn't lose
my place of where I was on the internet before my webtv box disconected.

There are three certain times three times each day that I get off of the
internet for a certain while in case family members and friends want to
phone me.If there is an emergency situation and I am on the
internet,they will phone two elderly people down the street from me and
they will get me on our FRS two way radios.radios.It works for me.
cuhulin

Would Skype phone work for you? www.skype.com I think if you have
DSL you can use your computer and regular land line phone at the same
time.
cuhulin

Just to mention to the guy who said this is not a newsgroup for beepers:

I've been coming to this newsgroup for some years now, and I had seen
subjects here from connecting two dixies cups with a string to subjects
like the 2nd coming of the BIG BANG!

HA HA HA!

God Bless America!

73

SR!


SR wrote:
First let me said this: I do not need or care for a cell phone. Their
too expensive and I find counting minutes a nuance.

When I go online, my telephone line is busy. So I want to have a beeper
so that my brother can call the beeper, once I get the beep, I can then
call him back.

I had not seen beepers around in stores. People do not even talk about
them ever since cell phones took over.

I did a google search on Beepers and Beeper services and hardly nothing
comes up.

Now as for the beeper, I would like: A beeper with a few features such
as the number that is calling me and date/time. If their are beepers
with more features, news/weather report, please let me know about them.

73, SR!

"SR" wrote in message ...
Just to mention to the guy who said this is not a newsgroup for beepers:

I've been coming to this newsgroup for some years now, and I had seen
subjects here from connecting two dixies cups with a string to subjects
like the 2nd coming of the BIG BANG!


So be it. I just thought you could get yourself a better answer elsewhere
that more on topic... If you want to short-change yourself, it's your
right.

"PowerHouse Communications" ) writes:
"SR" wrote in message ...
Just to mention to the guy who said this is not a newsgroup for beepers:

I've been coming to this newsgroup for some years now, and I had seen
subjects here from connecting two dixies cups with a string to subjects
like the 2nd coming of the BIG BANG!


So be it. I just thought you could get yourself a better answer elsewhere
that more on topic... If you want to short-change yourself, it's your
right.


Actually, I'd say pagers aren't on topic. The fact that there is all
kinds of junk here does not negate the fact that it's off topic.

If someone was asking about listening to paging transmitters, for
the sake of doing so, then it would fit the newsgroup.

Despite the "shortwave" in the title, the original intent was for
people who listened to radio as a hobby, be it AM DXing, FM DXing,
shortwave broadcast, listening to "public service bands" or whatever.
(Since there is at least one newsgroup for scanners, the latter does more or
less it there better).

It isn't about amateur radio, except for those who simply listen
to the ham bands. There is a whole. rec.radio.amateur.* hierarchy for
discussing the things related to the hobby of amateur radio.

It sure isn't intended for heavy political discussions that can
only be connected to shortwave radio only because someone mentioned something
about such a topic on shortwave sometime.

Newsgroups decline when nobody speaks up about the off topic junk.
Speaking up against a pager post may not stop all the rest, but it is an
attempt at trying to prevent an even greater slide.

The question about the pager was a consumer issue, dealt with in a
consumer related newsgroup, or even a city specific newsgroup where there
would be other locals who could point the poster to a local paging company.

Michael

Sometimes it's not the subject so much, but the one who enters the post.

Radio is such a diverse subject, it is very hard to have a newgroup for
every possible radio subject.

Even shortwave as a subject is also very diverse. It can go from crank
radios to boatanchors to satellites.

Shortwave is the mother of all radios.

73 Steven!



Michael Black wrote:
"PowerHouse Communications" ) writes:

"SR" wrote in message ...

Just to mention to the guy who said this is not a newsgroup for beepers:

I've been coming to this newsgroup for some years now, and I had seen
subjects here from connecting two dixies cups with a string to subjects
like the 2nd coming of the BIG BANG!


So be it. I just thought you could get yourself a better answer elsewhere
that more on topic... If you want to short-change yourself, it's your
right.



Actually, I'd say pagers aren't on topic. The fact that there is all
kinds of junk here does not negate the fact that it's off topic.

If someone was asking about listening to paging transmitters, for
the sake of doing so, then it would fit the newsgroup.

Despite the "shortwave" in the title, the original intent was for
people who listened to radio as a hobby, be it AM DXing, FM DXing,
shortwave broadcast, listening to "public service bands" or whatever.
(Since there is at least one newsgroup for scanners, the latter does more or
less it there better).

It isn't about amateur radio, except for those who simply listen
to the ham bands. There is a whole. rec.radio.amateur.* hierarchy for
discussing the things related to the hobby of amateur radio.

It sure isn't intended for heavy political discussions that can
only be connected to shortwave radio only because someone mentioned something
about such a topic on shortwave sometime.

Newsgroups decline when nobody speaks up about the off topic junk.
Speaking up against a pager post may not stop all the rest, but it is an
attempt at trying to prevent an even greater slide.

The question about the pager was a consumer issue, dealt with in a
consumer related newsgroup, or even a city specific newsgroup where there
would be other locals who could point the poster to a local paging company.

Michael