So, did you see any sun spots? Ooops! I know you didn't... the sun is
still way late coming off sun spot minimum. Not many spots to see these
days.
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
>> Actually, you can make some real neat techo type shots with fibre,
>> just remember to peal the external layers off :o)
>
> Hmm... I'm not sure I'd want to do that with 8 channels of 120km
> colored optics being blasted through a 20dB amp...
>
> We have this one tech, who probably (most certainly) removed a few
> good braincells through years of ORT-THC (oxygen replacement therapy
> with THC) that kinda scares me once in a while. OK, most of the time.
>
> We had this fiber cut thanks to some moron with a backhoe clearing
> ditches that snagged, pulled up and broke about 100 feet of fiber. The
> tech drove the roads looking for the cut and found the snake laying
> across the road. While on the cellphone with us, he looked into the
> end of the exposed fiber and said "I don't see any light coming
> through it."
>
> !!!!!
>
> What was most unusual about this was while he was doing that, he
> pointed the fiber directly at the sun. For a moment the LOS (loss of
> signal) alarms cleared and we got measurable light on the receivers.
>
> AG
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