[cisco-voip] Old cisco-voip thread on VG-224 dead ports

[Mike King]

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> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Tim Reimers <treimers at ashevillenc.gov>wrote:
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>> You could buy one of these:
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>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-METRO-TEL-CORP-TELEPHONE-LINE-TESTER-VOLT-METER-/190554686851?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5df1c583
>> Or this:
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> One of my first jobs was installing Low-voltage wiring, and the owner of
> the company was a Retired New England Telephone/NYNEX/ATT installer.  (He
> retired in the Mid Eighties)
> That's the meter he carried.
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> He could tell you how long a cable run was by "kicking" the cable. The
> meter had a battery, and would charge the cable, then flipping the switch
> would read the Ohms on it, he knew how many ohms equated how many feet.  It
> was quite impressive then, especially since it had no electronics.
>
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