Products > Other Equipment & Products
Any Vintage Multimeter Aficionados?
vk6zgo:
If it was the same as in West Oz,the Telephone techs used to do "First-in Maintenance",& if it was a really hard fault,a team from the Broadcast Branch would come up & fix it.
I flew, & drove,many km doing that stuff!
You'd be away on a maintenance run,& the Boss would contact you to say; "While you're in the area"-----
& send you off to somewhere 300km away from where you were!
Toyota HiAce seats got a bit uncomfortable after the first 5 or 6 hundred km!
The Fly-ins were a bit more civilised,though!
Most of the places we went had some sort of Telecom presence.
Not like today,where country towns have been denuded of staff from all sorts of organisations,-----No Telstra,Railways,Banks,& in some cases,even Cops!
SeanB:
Sound like where I used to stay...... The local shop was a 200km round trip. Used to phone KFC and place an order and drive to collect it, generally when we arrived to collect they would close up and go home, having stayed open the extra hour it took us to get there. Half the order would get eaten on the way back though.
T4P:
--- Quote from: SeanB on June 18, 2012, 04:26:45 pm ---Sound like where I used to stay...... The local shop was a 200km round trip. Used to phone KFC and place an order and drive to collect it, generally when we arrived to collect they would close up and go home, having stayed open the extra hour it took us to get there. Half the order would get eaten on the way back though.
--- End quote ---
That's really-extremely far >:(
SeanB:
Scary thing was that there were 3 pubs within either 3 minutes walk, 5 minutes drive or 10 minutes drive. One guy took out a pole ( only bend literally in the road for 40km, and he had to hit the phone line pole on an embankment 5m up the cutting) and disconnected all comms for 2 weeks until the fibre was repaired. He was a little drunk at the time.
vk6zgo:
Did the Pubs do meals?
You might have been better to eat there,instead,but when you get the taste for KFC,you have to have it!
When I was in England in the 1970s,I made a round trip of about 200km to London to get KFC one Sunday.(AFAIK the only other place that had it at the time was Liverpool)
The Brits quite justifiably thought I was mad!
The KFC was cold & served with chips---unheard of in Oz at the time!(I'm still a bit funny about chips with KFC)
To make for a more entertaining day,I had trouble with the Ford Popular on the way back--blocked fuel filter.
More recently,back home,my missus made a 320k round trip from Quairading to Perth to go to Bingo on a couple of occasions.
When I was courting her,she lived 225km away.
We don't do stuff like that these days--fuel's too expensive!
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version