Retrying ... I swear I changed it to [OT] before :/ RiB On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 21:59, Roger, in Bangkok wrote: > 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 = 100 > 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 vacatio= n > 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 wonderi= ng >> 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 >> dangle >> > 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 .