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From: "Zink, Sheryl (sazi)" <SAZI@chevron.com>
To: "'Ken Zink'" <hellcat1@pdq.net>, "'Larry Lehman'" <llehman@juno.com>,
"'Larry Zink'" <Zink@pdq.net>,
"'Gary Lehman'" <glehman@cols-compeople.com>,
"'Norma Lehman'" <ndlehman@mail.usmo.com>
Subject: FW: Telephone Wires
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:36:09 -0700
> It's common practice in England to ring a telephone by sending extra
> voltage
> across one side of the two wire circuit and ground (earth in England).
> When
> the subscriber answers the phone, it switches to the two wire circuit
> for the
> conversation. This method allows two parties on the same line to be
> signaled
> without disturbing each other.
>
> Anyway, an elderly lady with several pets called to say that her
> telephone
> failed to ring when her friends called; and that on the few occasions
> when it
> did ring her dog always barked first. The telephone repairman
> proceeded to
> the scene, curious to see this psychic dog.
>
> He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed
> the
> subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The dog
> barked
> loudly, followed by a ringing telephone.
>
> Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found:
>
> a. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an
> iron chain and collar..
>
> b. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current.
>
> c. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and
> urinating on the ground..
>
> d. The wet ground now completed the circuit and the phone would
> ring..
>
> Which shows you that some problems can be fixed by just pissing on
> them. But
> only temporarily..
>
>
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