On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 08:46 +0200, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Oddly enough, I've encountered many a cell phone that announces an incoming 
> > text message by sending "SMS" - in Morse!
> 
> These phones are probably manufactured by a small unknown finnish
> company ;-) where a rather well-known finnish ham (OH2BH) works.
> 
> Those same phones will happily spell the company motto in code when the
> active ringtone is "Long&Loud". As an exercise to the reader, work out
> the name of the company 8-)
> 
> I actually bothered to create a special ringtone that says "QRZ?" and
> assigned it the "HAM" caller group 8-)

Actually my cell phone (or as the europeans say "mobile") has a tag
inside saying "Hecho en Mexico" which I assume is the Finnish way of
spelling Finland.

I think the company name was taken from a protest sign opposing a brand
of cars made in South Korea.

73, Bob N7XY


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