#: 62652 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    14-Sep-96  13:54:23
Sb: #61181-Foreign Access
Fm: Adam C. Spiegel 104710,367
To: m. simmons 76635,1200

I was just in Helsinki and connected fine, after a short false start.    I was
at the Eurohostel, with a very cooperative desk attendant who let me into
their office to play.   They had a multiline phone system which used RG-11
(the standard U.S. modular phone jack) connectors.  I first tried to get a
dial tone on that (using my $5.00 radio shack line testor), but was
unsuccessful.

I then went to their fax machine, unplugged the RG-ll from it and was
connected in 30 seconds.  Didn't e ven have to disable dial tone detect (in
fact, haven't had to do that in any of the following countries:  France,
England, Ireland, Scotland,  Norway, Finland, Sweden).

Good luck, and watch out for drunken Finns!

Adam Spiegel
on a train from
Goeteborg to Oslo
on a Z5800

