Looks pretty much like what they are doing in Bangkok. In our case it is indeed fiber cable with steel messenger cable. Sometime within the next 10= 0 years or so it is expected that all of these cables will make their way underground (along with all the power grid cabling). The abundant slack will come in handy when it it's time to fish them through the PVC. Think about it, if it was copper they would have already been cut as short as possible with the crews carting off the end pieces to the metal recyclers .... that's a real serious problem here, even if you go on a short vacation you may come home to no copper or aluminum anythings :-/ RiB On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 21:20, RussellMc wrote: > >> Ah, yes. true. They are not simply there to avoid dangling and > >> vandalism. > > http://bit.ly/WiringProblems > > > Actually that was a joke in the first place. When Russell was wonderin= g > why > > there were coils, I thought he meant as apposed to the cable being cut > > shorter. My answer implying the alternative was to let the cables dang= le > > was meant to be funny. Jokes suck when you have to explain them. > > Even I got that one ;-). > Although I had to think about it carefully first as, just about as bad > as missing a joke, is assuming that something is one when it's not > ;-). > > My "best guess" was that they left the roll lengths uncut so that > they could be reused without joining. Seemed rather unlikely. > > The balun argument doesn't feel quite right. > > The desire to maintain constant distance to customer for signal level > and time delay reasons makes some sense. Something I hadn't thought > of. > > It must be "interesting" having to work with such wiring. > > > > > Russell > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .