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To: Eric L who wrote (10186)	3/29/2001 6:03:14 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

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)