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Joe,
I'm a current 'Bell Head' so I can probably offer up some
thoughts.
Telephone lingo varies greatly from one company to the next
and from one region to another. In Nebraska an 'A' Box is actually a three
position wooden box that's used to sit on while splicing cable.
It's most commonly known as a 'butt box' for obvious
reasons.
You might be thinking of the green or light beige metal box
that sits in your back yard or on your property line that houses telephone cable
and the small 'drop' wire that runs to your home, business or tower. (Drop
comes from the aerial days when the wire 'dropped' from the main cable pole run
to the home.) We commonly call the box a 'terminal' or 'ped'
(short for pedestal).
In Nebraska with Qwest Communications we are responsible for
the drop wire to the customer premises and the Service Network Interface (SNI)
that is on the back of the building. The SNI's purpose is to perform surge
suppression and act as a demarcation point where we hand dial tone off to the
customer.
We still have a few carbons in the field but our policy is to
change them out to the new SNI's with gas discharge protection any time we see
one. That's at no cost to the customer.
And - as many have already said - the gas discharge tube or
even newer solid state devices are a great improvement over the old
carbons.
Doug Zastrow WB0UPJ
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 4:39
PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Telephone
Co Lightning pucks
I really don't know, it's been almost 20 years since I worked
for a wireline company. The best thing is to call telephone repair and
ask them.
Joe
---- Gran Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joe
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> The box that comes out of the ground, is this termed the "A
Box"? Do
> you think SPC (old Pacific Bell) would change that
assembly on my
> request as a customer? I noticed there were four
other lines
> connected to the box.
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> Gran K6RIF
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> At 18:36 8/18/2005, you wrote:
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> There may be a gas discharge replacement for the unit that you
> > have, but they might be difficult to find. I tossed the ones I
had
> > years ago. Your best bet is to change out the entire
mounting to a
> > newer design, scraping the carbons may have
changed the spark gap.
> >
> >73, Joe, K1ike
> >Ex
Bell head
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> >---- Gran Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi
All
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> > > Telephone company demarks have the old
carbon style lightning
> > > arresters. Any success
repairing them? I know the new ones have a
> > > gas
discharge design. The element has a couple of crimps that
hold
> > > the carbon from falling out and the gap is insured by a
plastic or
> > > ceramic holder. I have scraped the carbon
surfaces and they now read open.
> > >
> > > Anyone
been there with this? (in particular the repair aspect) I
am
> > > sure I could stop enough telco trucks to get
replacements.
> > >
> > > Gran K6RIF
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