[BC] WE Field Engineering

[DANA PUOPOLO]

Yep..

and they used to run several KV of DC on those coaxes to power those undersea
amplifiers.

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:21:43 AM PDT
From: "Harold Hallikainen" <harold at hallikainen.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] WE Field Engineering

I know a guy who used to work for Western Electric on the telephone
company side of stuff in the 1960s and 1970s. He mostly installed new
stuff in central offices. He spent a lot of time working in the local AT&T
underground facility where the undersea cable from Hawaii comes in. At
that time, it was a single strand of coax with vacuum tube amplifiers on
the bottom of the ocean...

Harold

> I am looking for someone who might know something of Western Electrics
> approach to Filed Service.  So this will leave some of us younger guys out
> since they closed up shop around 1950 time.
>
> Brother Dave may know or brother Fred up in Illinois.
>
> Did WE use their field techs much the same way as the old RCA field
> service
> guys?  You lived where you wanted and just traveled in a general territory
> unless they needed you somewhere else.  Or did they all come out of NYC or
> Chicago and LA or what was the scoop.
>
> Thanks fellows, and does anyone know of a real live former FE with WE?
>
> One commercial plug, if you are in Sprint PCS territory, we are turning
> EVDO
> data channels all over the country.  500 kb to over 1.5.  All wireless of
> course, you now have another option to DSL or cable.  Works pretty good
> to.
>
> Stanley Adams
> Memphis
>
>
>
>
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