[SixClub] Kansas Phone Repair

[K8RI (Roger on six)]

On 1/21/2011 3:03 AM, Howard Bingham wrote:
> Still is a funny story..
>
> In some northern New Mexico farming communities, ranchers use fence wire
> &  old style crank phones to talk to neighbors, can't reach your
> neighbor, better get in the pickup, as a downed fence means roaming cattle..
>
> I forget the town, was near the Capulin Volcaco site in NE New Mexico in
> 1970's..
As a teenager I worked as a lineman on one of those old "open wire" 
telephone lines. Our phone line was a privately owned co-op. There 
anin't nothin' like being on top of a wobbly old wood telephone pole 
leaning back against the belt with your spikes dug in when some one 
would hear the phone "ding" from the test rig, grab their phone and 
start cranking.  BTW all the splinters on those old poles "point up!" 
You ain't lived until you've hugged a telephone pole.

I can still remember my father saying, "Now you don't have to talk like 
that!", but I think he was trying not to laugh at the same time. I think 
that was probably about the time he realized there was no need to "have 
that talk" about life with me if language was any indication. <:-))

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Howard Bingham
>
> --
>
> On 1/20/2011 6:46 PM, Chris Boone wrote:
>> Bad joke as a phone line is NEVER grounded for ringing...it is a balanced
>> line....(It IS grounded when using Ground Start for dialtone which is never
>> used at a residence; only business/PBX use...but its never grounded  for
>> ringing!)
>>
>> And believe me, 90V at 20Hertz HURTS!!
>>
>> Chris
>> WB5ITT
>> aka: "Dr Touchtone"
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: sixclub-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sixclub-
>>> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Pete
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:18 PM
>>> To: World Wide Six Meter Club
>>> Subject: [SixClub] Kansas Phone Repair
>>>
>>>
>>>>              PHONE REPAIR
>>>>
>>>> A Kansas farm wife called the local phone company to report her
>> telephone
>>> failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few occasions,
>> when it
>>> did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang.
>>>> The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this
>>> psychic dog or senile lady. He climbed a 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 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 with 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 number
>> was
>>> called.
>>>> 4.. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then
>> urinate.
>>>> 5. The wet ground would improve the circuit ground, thus causing the
>>> phone to ring.
>>>> Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pi**ing and
>>> moaning.
>>>
>>> _________________________
>>>
>>> de NL7XM
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