Larry, Thanks for the great info.

I just a got a used bag phone from Ebay, cleaned it up, threw out the
battery and plugged it in.... works like a charming getting 911!!

Gotta say, I sure wish i knew about this before, like last summer when
I decided to take a short cut through the Florida Panhandle (in my
truck) and recall driving for an hour with no phone signal and seeing
nothing but road kill. Would have been real ugly to have been broke
down out there.

QUESTION FOR ANYBODY WHO KNOWS:
I understand I can make collect and credit card calls with the phone??
Is this true? How? Right now I get some message from ATT (I think)
about not being a valid phone line. I tried calling 101020 - and still
get that message. Wonder some of those 1800collect type numbers would
work?

Thanks for any help or information.