[ARC5] OT. Telephone Repair

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 7:58 PM
Subject: [ARC5] OT. Telephone Repair


> Lawrence , Kansas, December 12, 2008
>
> A Kansas farm wife called the local phone company to 
> report her telephone
> failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the 
> few occasions,
> when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the 
> phone rang.
>
> The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to 
> see this
> psychic dog or senile lady. He climbed a telephone pole, 
> hooked in his
> test set, and dialed the subscriber's house.
>
> The phone didn't ring right away, but then the dog moaned 
> and the
> telephone began to ring.
>
> Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman 
> found:
>
> 1 . The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire 
> with a steel
> chain and collar.
>
> 2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
>
> 3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current 
> when the number was
> called.
>
> 4.. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning 
> and then urinate.
>
> 5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing 
> the phone to ring.
>
> Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by 
> pissing and moaning.
>
>
>>From a friend. Sorry, it was just too funny not to pass 
>>on.
>
> -John

rotfl!


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com