It's been a while since I last saw a telephone pole
or climbed it, even Sonera is cutting down the last
ones this summer.
One reason is that cold weather, snow,etc are kind of
cruel to hanging wires. My first summer job of two km earned
some fame later on, the following winter, by kind of being
a little bit to tight and snapping off my carefully wired
connections.. (no humming, just the one great snapping
impulse noise)
Luckily I didn't have to get out in the snowy forrest
to find and fix those two km, my earlier buddies did that
part, while I was studying the basics of DSP.
Ilmarinen.
P.S. Somebody used to ask when I was going to do another
Ph.D. thesis, besides that first one.. (My masters
degree was to unplug the wrong plug which powered half of
the long distance switch, just before leaving late on a
friday.. another buddy also took care of that during
the saturday and sunday, when he finally found
that plug and wondered who could have been that
extremely stupid. Monday morning was interesting.
The bachelor degree I managed to pass with flying
colors and relay contacts and a lot of cold solderings)
P.P.S. Humming ground problems are other reasons, finnish
soil isn't what it could be and with global warming
increasing thunder and lightning seem to be putting the last
chapter to telephone poles and hanging copper wires.
(worst thunder "ever" in the rural-forrest east this summer,
took Sonera two weeks to fix everything, now offering
GSM phones instead at copper cost per minute) |
