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 Herrmanjer...@san.rr.com wrote:
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
I found one of those on the roadside 20 odd years ago. Most of
today's people under 30 would not have a clue how to use it. Most
of them have
I found one of those things that I think must have been some sort of
voltage or current detector -- it looked like a little torpedo about 6in
long, was yellow. It had no buttons or anything else so I was never
sure what it was. I probably have it tucked in a box somewhere.
--R
On 6/7/12
Railroad telegraph lines; separate system from Postal Telegraph and Western
Union.
Gerry
From: Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com
What were the poles along the RR tracks with two cross bars, wires, and
the colored glass insulators? Telephone or telegraph? Stop
Rick stop
Sent from my wireless
Signal wires?
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012, at 11:24 PM, Rick Knoble wrote:
What were the poles along the RR tracks with two cross bars, wires, and the
colored glass insulators? Telephone or telegraph? Stop
Rick stop
Sent from my wireless telegraph. Stop
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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
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
During the '30s, '40s, and '50s in Florida there were telephone poles along
main roads with multiple crosspieces that had dozens of telephone wires.
REA power poles were separate. Driving along the highway you could hear the
telephone wires singing. Even after studying electronics, I never
During the '30s, '40s, and '50s in Florida there were telephone
poles along main roads with multiple crosspieces that had dozens of
telephone wires. REA power poles were separate. Driving along the
highway you could hear the telephone wires singing. Even after
studying electronics, I never
Jerry Herrman jer...@san.rr.com writes:
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
Who was the first telephone pole?
Alexander Graham Belinski!
--R
On 6/5/12 8:36 PM, Jerry Herrman 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
--R- wrote:
Who was the first telephone pole?
Alexander Graham Belinski!
Your such a looser.
mao
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remember seeing them still in use there when visiting my mother in late
seventies, maybe later.
Wilton
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From: Jerry Herrman jer...@san.rr.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 8:36 PM
Subject: [MBZ] Telephone Poles
RLE wrote:
Almost always
I thought he was just a loose nutperhaps 10 mm?
--R- wrote:
Who was the first telephone pole?
Alexander Graham Belinski!
Your such a looser.
mao
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colored glass insulators? Telephone or telegraph? Stop
Rick stop
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