[GreenKeys] Phone pole drop wire

[James M. Walker]

Oh Man,
I can't breathe, and my side is hurting like mad, "Snort! A BC-610, Bell 
wire,
Oh, my please I can't breathe. Too Funny.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program!
Jim
WB2FCN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Gottlieb" <nerd at verizon.net>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Phone pole drop wire


> It is posts like this which is why I will always stay on this list.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Geoff Fors wrote:
>> Larry, you mean the drop wire from the phone pole to the house actually 
>> is
>> supposed to have copper wire in it?  The ones at my house are twin little
>> rubber hoses full of green powder, and date from the Eisenhower era. 
>> They
>> won't change them unless forced to.
>>
>> I had the deluxe Comcast cable ground wire, attached to the PVC water 
>> line
>> also.
>>
>> Went to help a younger ham in town a few years ago who was having trouble
>> with a BC-610 transmitter he had gotten somewhere.   His antenna was a 65
>> foot hank of bell wire thrown out an aluminum framed window to a tree. 
>> The
>> "antenna" had arced over to the window frame and blown about a 1 inch 
>> chunk
>> out of it.  He did not have the antenna tuner either.  I saw a piece of # 
>> 18
>> bell wire heading out the door of his bedroom and out the back door, on 
>> the
>> floor.  Following it, it went to a 24 inch copper rod pounded into a 
>> large
>> flower pot (!) on the back porch, and the other end was screwed to the
>> BC-610 chassis...
>>
>> Geoff
>> WB6NVH
>>
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