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Re: [OM] E-510 "feature"

Subject: Re: [OM] E-510 "feature"
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:29:29 -0400
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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