[SixClub] Kansas Phone Repair

[Chris Boone]

OUCH!! Just thinking about "hugging" the pole make me shiver.. I hated every
time I got a wood splinter in the hand...especially treated poles! It
usually required a trip to the doc before it got infected! (and that was
working for a power utility...doing telephone, etc work for it! We hung our
own pilot wire from one building to a remote site 1 mile away; we owned the
poles!...even got digital phones, ROLMphones, to work on it...the 18ga wire
helped...it would pass 120kHz with little attenuation)

(the tie to 6m?? UUHHHHH I had a company Midland on our lowband channels and
also on 6FM??!! Yeah that's it!! In fact, I was the one to get Midland LMR
to cough up the programming changes needed to put the Syntech II and XTRs on
6....back in 1990! Still have my Midlands..too bad they aren't
multimode.....best 6m FM rigs ever made)

> -----Original Message-----
> 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)