[SixClub] Phone problems

[Greg Grambor]

Good one, Ed. As for the dog story,  I had never heard it before, and I
found it so funny I almost peed myself from laughing. I had to share it, but
like everything else on the internet, I'm not surprised to see you tell me
it's an oldie.
73
Greg WB2GMK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward Leicester" <kg4qmi at earthlink.net>
To: "World Wide Six Meter Club" <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [SixClub] Phone problems


> 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
> ---------------------------
> Edward Leicester
> WAS-20m
> VUCC-6m #1369
> EC-Perq. Co.  NCARES
> Hertford NC/FM16
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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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