My Elmer, K0JDB, told me this story some 40 years ago.... Ray was a
telegrapher for the Santa Fe Railroad out here on the plains of Kansas.
During the 30's, no one had any money to buy anything, so some inventive
radio ops (and others) would take some fence wire and jumper the #12 and #10
copper wire from the pole to the farmer's barbed wire fence. Then they would
go down a mile and do the same. Then they would cut down the copper between
the two points. The railroad did not know they were running communcation on
the farmer's fence until it fell over and grounded out. Inventive, but
illegal.
Lee - K0WA
In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't
have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find
any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense.
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