[SixClub] Phone problems

[George Clark]

You'll get flamed. No one has a sense of Humor these days! It has to be about radio or well, what can I say!!!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Greg Grambor<mailto:tammed at earthlink.net> 
  To: Six Club<mailto:sixclub at mailman.qth.net> 
  Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 3:05 PM
  Subject: [SixClub] Phone problems


  MessageIt's not six meters, but every ham alive will enjoy this story, especially you old tip & ring guys ..... don't flame me for being off topic, just enjoy the story, I'm still laughing from it ..... 73 & see you on six, Greg WB2GMK


    An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to
    report that her telephone failed to ring when her
    friends called and that on the few occasions when it
    did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the
    phone rang.

    The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene,
    curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly
    lady. He climbed a nearby 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 loudly 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 via 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 phone number was called.
    4. After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start
    moaning and then urinate on himself and the ground.
    5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus
    causing the phone to ring.

    Which goes to show that some problems can be fixed by pissing and moaning .  
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