The post from
@prcguy brought back a memory. Many years ago a customer was convinced the cause of his coverage issues was due to all the people listening to their system as they were sucking up all the signal. Not sure we ever really convinced him otherwise.
For the benefit of those who are unaware in Ontario. As discussed in the Skip/Tropo forum, there is activity on the California Highway Patrol frequencies lately. Once the sun rises in California, the signals start coming in. As of now, the 39 MHz band is hot. If you are inclined to listen and...
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I think we've all had customers like that. Sometimes I don't know if I should scream or laugh.
Many years ago I was told that my phone system had sent some sort of "death ping" through an analog phone line that killed some guys 20+ year old cassette tape answering machine. Didn't matter that his answering machine was from the Carter administration, all he knew was that it no longer worked and it was our fault. He verbally attacked one of my technicians when she went to check it out. Rather than get in an argument with the guy, I turned up a voice mail box and gave it to him for free. He was still pissed off. The tech complained and the individual got a nice talking to.
Had an older gentleman that complained that his analog phone was shocking his ear every time he used it. I went and checked the circuit for foreign voltages, none found. Checked everything, no issues. Checked the phone, no issue. Was talking to the guy about not seeing anything wrong, and while talking to him, noticed that he had enough hair sticking out of his ear to weave a blanket for a large child. I left it at that and told him to call if it happened again. I put notes in the ticket explaining the ear hair issue, never did get called back.
Got called in to the highest level office due to a phone issue. Was not allowed to enter the office, one of the admin assistants brought the phone out to me. I look at it and it looks like someone had puked into the handset. I tossed the handset and gave them a new one.
Learned really quickly when changing out phone parts to either never throw them in the trash at the customers office, or at minimum, cut any flakey line/handset cords. Very frequently some well meaning individual would pull it out of the trash and reuse it somewhere. I'd get called back for another phone and find the same damaged cord.
