I occasionally think of what possible things might have been sent over this microwave radio. When I was in Germany in the army we had microwave telecomm links on the tops of hills to connect our hawk missile sites to our headquarters. We had the voice channels connected to our switchboard and if you were
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Short biography of a person who no one has heard of. AT&T Laboratory. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Z8YZmJkZayE39EnnnDdstGH29WYeFpzFAKuKC84nTWA5G8H5s4bi2mv9kvfmrxpxl&id=61585440005434&post_id=61585440005434_pfbid02Z8YZmJkZayE39EnnnDdstGH29WYeFpzFAKuKC84nTWA5G8H5s4bi2mv9kvfmrxpxl&mibextid=NOb6eG
It’s the size of a notebook. For remote use. https://www.facebook.com/61552509624292/videos/1075991334061084/?mibextid=9drbnH
This Saturday I had to wait for first, an at&t tech to verify that the outage was in their cabling. Then he found that the problem was 585 feet upstream, and he didn’t do pole climbing, he had tondispatch someone from Construction who climbed poles and had a bucket truck that could access the cables
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Well, Dr. Tyson got a few things not quite right. For one, he said that the area code numbers were chosen so that the most *people* would have do dial the least amount of digits. Well, that was just a side benefit. The central office equipment can’t have a dialer for every telephone, so they
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When I was in the Army in Germany, I worked at the switchboard. We had a few telephone lines between HQ where I was and other missile battalions. These were from the German telephone system. There weren’t enough telephone pairs so they ordered the transformers used to make phantom circuits and installed them at both
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Kate J. The guys had code words for some of the PITAs who frequently called the help desk. One lady, H.M.3 – high maintenance #3, kept asking for the cord replaced on her phone’s handset. I must’ve replaced it a half dozen times. It turned out that the problem wasn’t the cord, the network itself
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The 5g network will take a year or more to be built out, and the high speed is to me a mixed bag. So with Google Fi, I pay by the GB. I’m paying $24 when I’m using zero data (WiFi only) and I pay up to $83 for 6GB or more. If I get
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From FB group Bell Telephone… 2018-08-31 Gary Stoutenburg I love that comparison. 👍 There’s an old IT adage: “The first 90% of the software takes 10% of the time. The last 10% of the software takes 90% of the time.” The user interface is a big time and money sink, so a lot of corner
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From FB group Bell Telephone… As a customer and the point man who interfaced with the Telco, I have nothing but good to say about all the fine craftspeople I dealt with during my 33 years with the college district. I only wish I could have spoken as highly of other contractors I had to
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