[SixClub] Phone problems

[Edward Leicester]

So.....whats so funny!!! I AM an old Tip and Ring guy and thats an OLD joke
and I don't see the humor..........................And it IS off topic
and.........................actually it is quite funny. Now let me see if I
can one-up the "story". Actual true life story about a guy that used to work
here "long, long ago".

Keep it mind the time is about 35-40 years ago. Mostly wood frame houses and
aerial phone lines.

Seems he would go into a house to ask the homeowner where they wanted their
new phone in the house. If the homeowner was a "little old lady/man", he
would bring in the "analog telephone placement meter". He would walk thru
the house going from room to rom looking for the best location for their
phone. The needle on the meter would go "full scale" and he would announce
to the h/o that here was the best spot in the house for the phone.
Invariably it would be an outside wall. The customer would happily agree and
an hour or so later the tech moved on to the next job.

Now as Paul Harvey would say...heres the rest of the story.

Actually the "analog placement meter" was an old Bell VOM. He would put the
leads in his hand behind his back and walk thru the house. When he found
"the spot", he shorted the leads together causing the needle to swing. Why
that spot. Because it was an outside wall located so that it was a straight
shot out out to the street where the terminal pole was. A short run of
aerial  drop wire to a protector on the side of the house and then its drill
a hole thru the side of the house and twelve inches of wire later, the
customer had their phone and was really glad to have it.

Is this a true story? Well the guy had retired just before I started so I
didn't see him do this first hand. BUT, over  the years I went to a lot of
houses in the town where he worked  and found a lot of older houses wired
eexactly like that. Coincidence?? Hmmmm, I wonder.

Thats my  story and I'm sticking to it.






73 de Ed/kg4qmi
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Edward Leicester
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Grambor" <tammed at earthlink.net>
To: "Six Club" <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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