1) Charging - Where do charge your hobby phone?
2) Carry - Do you carry both your regular and hobby phone with you? If so, when and where?
3) SIM Chips - Does anyone swap their hobby phone SIM chip with their regular SIM chip in their regular cell phone when the need arises?
4) Texting - My RAs like to text messages to me fairly regularly. Is this advised (I like getting their messages, BTW)?
5) Voice Mail - Do you leave an answering message or use the standard message?
6) Discovery - What do you say is your SO discovers your hobby phone?

Any other advice? Thanks!

There are my answers, but they probably don't help you due to our very different answers on #6.

2. Turn the hobby phone on when you want to make or receive calls. Turn it off when you don't.

3. If you have an SO, never take the phone home or leave it in a car parked at your house. Otherwise, keep it with you when you want to make or receive calls. Leave it somewhere (like your office desk drawer) when you don't.

4. Charge the phone at any convenient place that is not your home (See #3.) and has electricity.

5. Assuming that your phone is anonymous (See #1.), text away. But don't send or store any personal info you wouldn't want someone else ("manager," LE, SO) to read. Do not send info that would let someone find your home or work location.

6. Use the default voicemail greeting, the one that just repeats your phone number. If you ask providers to call you back, tell them that this is the greeting they will hear.

7. You did read #3, right? Okay, so let's suppose you forgot and she finds it while hanging up the jacket that you tossed on the chair. Or maybe it rings (See #2.). "Oh shoot! I found that (on BART, on the street, in the office conference room, etc.) and forgot to turn it in." But let's suppose she wants to read the names and text messages stored on the phone. (See #5.) You did leave the phone off, right? (See #2.) Good for you. That means when she starts it up, she will be prompted for...

8. ...the passcode, which you set up when you bought the phone and which neither one of you will know.

9. And of course, when she checks your credit card bill, nothing will be there, because you paid for everything in cash.

Enjoy the hobby!

Car as your driving would be cool. Or depending on your work situation, maybe there.

>2) Carry - Do you carry both your regular and hobby phone
>with you? If so, when and where?

Actually, the way I would do it would be to get a phone with two dial in numbers, and keep one on vibrate (probably the hobby line) and one on ring. And if you aren't expecting a call, leave the hobby phone line in silent mode no ring or vibrate. Nextel phones can do this, others too but I haven't checked out which lately. I think you could set them up with different security codes on the different lines, but I'm not 100% on that. Have your bill sent to a PO box; tell your wife it is paid for by the company or something. Or, maybe have the bill paid automatically from a CC IF that doesn't display too much info on the CC receipt, and have the bill sent to work or whatever.

>3) SIM Chips - Does anyone swap their hobby phone SIM chip
>with their regular SIM chip in their regular cell phone when
>the need arises?

That isn't a good approach, IMO. Sims and sim sockets aren't designed for daily use. Good way to break a phone.

>4) Texting - My RAs like to text messages to me fairly
>regularly. Is this advised (I like getting their messages,
>BTW)?

I would firmly discourage that with them. You don't want any written messages, no matter what.

>5) Voice Mail - Do you leave an answering message or use the
>standard message?

On the hobby line, standard message, of course.

>6) Discovery - What do you say is your SO discovers your
>hobby phone?

"Step back, BEE-OTCH!" just kidding.

If you follow my plan here, that shouldn't happen.

>
>Any other advice? Thanks!

If you do keep your second phone, Is there a place near your home (but not your car) where you can store it? A storage place with late hours? A bar where you know the people? 711 where you know the manager? Friend who is single and won't turn on you?

Thing is, you sound a little shaky about this whole concept. What your wife can't get her hands on, she can't compromise.

Hope some of this helps.

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FriscoJack

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