Does anyone in this NG have any experience or ideas as to how a fax machine can be connected to a CDMA telephone for use in a vehicle?
JD
Vehicle fax operation
Oct 21, 2005
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G'day
Im not sure about connecting a fax directly to a standard CDMA telphone but you can by a device called a "fixed Cellular Terminal". These are a black box basically with a mobile phone anteanna and a phone socket on them (and with a SIM card for GSM models). Depending on the model you can plug any type of telhone equipment into them and use them wherever you have signal.
They're not really all that cheap though and a fair bit larger than a standard modern mobile. I forget the name of the mob who make them, but I'll post later if I remmenber.
CHeers
G'day John,
CDMA via Internet to Notebook, via a service like ozefaz.com.au (which I use), and it falls out your inbox as a pdf file. You can select any capital city for the incoming phone number.
If you need it printed (and do you really need this these days?) then you need a printer that will run from car power or batteries.
And if you want to send a fax, it is all in place with the above. Send from your email program, or windows app., to any number world wide.
The most expensive part is the CDMA ISP connection. I think you are pretty much tied into Tel$tra.
Don...
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Wialki Electronics in Perth sell a mobile (12V) fax machine. Talk to Steve on 08 9455-2245
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I'm not sure about fax calls, but data calls to a CDMA mobile are not useable by a standard modem. They are not just the 'analogue' fax signal over CDMA, they are using the digital signal as a digital signal.
Even if you could hook the analogue output of a CDMA handset to a fax, the data rate would be very slow, given the codec data rate is
14.4kbps.To use a fax on CDMA, I think you would need a separate number for that service that tells the network to terminate the fax call somewhere else and forward the data to the handset. In this respect, the handset looks like a modem, which means that it would need to connect to a PC, and not be able to connect directly to a fax. I'm assuming a normal PSTN fax, as I don't know if there is a specialised fax for this type of requirement.
Similar to someone else's suggestion, you will need a laptop and a printer to get something like this working (I think).
Dale.
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