Barb Wire Telephone Lines
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Barb Wire Telephone Lines
Has anyone ever heard of this before??
Atrocious but efficient: How ranchers used barbed wire to make phone calls
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/
Atrocious but efficient: How ranchers used barbed wire to make phone calls
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/
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Re: Barb Wire Telephone Lines
Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Brought Isolated Homesteaders Together
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-lines-homesteaders-prairie-america-history
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-lines-homesteaders-prairie-america-history
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Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network
https://gizmodo.com/barbed-wire-fences-were-an-early-diy-telephone-network-1493157700
https://gizmodo.com/barbed-wire-fences-were-an-early-diy-telephone-network-1493157700
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In the article, they only halfway say that the atrocious part was the sound quality.ReadyMom wrote: Has anyone ever heard of this before??
Atrocious but efficient: How ranchers used barbed wire to make phone calls
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/atrocious-but-efficient-how-ranchers-used-barbed-wire-to-make-phone-calls/
I don't really recall hearing about the system used in the article, but 20 years later, the same system was used in WW1 to communicate along the trenches. A grounding stake was driven at each phone, and a single wire ran along the face of the fence. Allowed decent voice communication for a few miles.
It also gave rise to the first listening device. The induction currents from a couple miles of wire, carrying a fairly strong audio signal could be listened to, by running a wire parallel to it, in the trench of the opposing army.
The fix was to use two wires, a system that saw a lot of use until the end of the 20th century.
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TRex2 wrote:In the article, they only halfway say that the atrocious part was the sound quality.
I did notice the mention of poor sound quality. I guess if you have nothing then 'something' will do.
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Yep. I was a communications guy in the AF, and in the early 80's I saw a lot of people putting up with some pretty lousy radios (left over from the end of Vietnam), since the replacements were a few years away.ReadyMom wrote:TRex2 wrote:In the article, they only halfway say that the atrocious part was the sound quality.
I did notice the mention of poor sound quality. I guess if you have nothing then 'something' will do.
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