Or "beige boxing". I disavow any firsthand knowledge of such activities.
-Rolf
On 6/5/2012 8:54 PM, Dan Penoff wrote:
Lineman's handset for testing local loops - no long distance. Known in the business as a
"butt set".
Dan
On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:36 PM, "Jerry Herrman"<jer...@san.rr.com> wrote:
RLE wrote:
"Almost always. Highest voltage is at the top (single uninsulated conductor)
feeding the transformers, next is transformer output serving the power
drops to the subscribers. Next is telephone and TV is on the bottom. The poles
(NOT telephone poles but utility poles) are owned by the power company and
the dial tone and TV cable companies pay a fee for every pole they hit."
This is interesting. Were they at one time real "telephone poles", owned and
operated by the telephone company? If so, would this have been the old familiar Bell
System of 30 plus years ago?
Or did I have it wrong all these years and the power company owned the poles? If so, how
did the name "telephone pole" originate? There always seems to be subscriber on
this list who knows the answer to these obscure questions.
As a kid (and later) I remember the phone guy climbing up the pole with his
equipment on a belt and near the top placing a leather strap like a large belt
around the pole so he could lean back and do his job.
He always had a red phone dangling from his tool belt that I understood allowed
him to call anywhere with no long distance fees. Sometimes he'd be up there for
a long time on the phone. Thinking about it now, I'll bet he was calling his
girlfriend.
Jerry
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