[Lowfer] [EXTERNAL]Re: Spectran question

[Howell, Laurence J]

I still have  a constant 800hz in my head from my linesman days.... 

On Apr 4, 2014, at 3:08 PM, "John Andrews" <w1tag at charter.net> wrote:

>> 1004 Hz is what my ears can best pull out of the noise.
>> 
>> I suspect there may be a few on the group who knows why.
> 
> A common affliction among old (and I do mean old) telephone guys. <g>
> 
> I remember having trouble with a a broadcast loop back in the '70s. I 
> was out at the transmitter site, and there was a nice 400 Hz General 
> Radio audio generator in the rack. I patched it into the line to see if 
> the guy at the C.O. could hear it. He wanted to know what the "hum" was. 
> Guess they only responded to 1004.
> 
> John A.
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