[Scan-DC] Hughes fiber optic testing

[Greg]

It sounds like a fiber splicing truck. I have seen old
ambulances used for this type of work before. 

They just run the fiber in to the truck on to a bench
and splice away. The generator is to power the
splicing equipment.


--- Joe Bradley <joe_bradley@tmail.com> wrote:
> Hello group,
> 
> Was out and about in the car today and saw what
> appeared to be an older 
> ambulance converted into some kind of work truck
> that was labeled Hughes 
> Fiber optic testing. It was parked very close to the
> intersection of rt 
> 355 and ridge rd (rt 27) on ridge. It had a cable
> running out of a 
> little door in the back than ran into a hole in the
> median. I got a 
> couple of digital photos of the van as I passed by.
> Being that it was an 
> old ambulance it still had the emergency equipment
> on it and the lights 
> were in operation and it was surrounding by cones.
> No visible atenna's 
> that I could see - and no one standing outside or
> near it. On one side a 
> cabinet door was open and it had a portable
> generator on a slide out 
> tray that was also in operation. I can the scanner
> on scan and was not 
> picking up anything radio emitting from the truck.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before or have any thoughts??
> 
> Joe
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