Remember When, Your 1st Cell (Bag) Phone

I was the Land Mobile Radio manager at Laughlin Air Force in Del Rio, TX back around 1992.

The medical clinic on base would transport folks in an ambulance 200 miles to San Antonio and wanted a way to "stay in touch". I found the Motorola bag phone like in the first picture.

I got the privilege to ride in the back of the ambulance to San Antonio and back to test connectivity. As I recall it was pretty good for 1992. The landscape is tabletop flat the entire distance.