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2. All ground connections, be it solderless or soldered, shall be checked at least once a year to be sure they are tight. Physical damage to ground wires shall be checked at the same time and damages rectified or damaged conductors replaced.
3. Do not test grounds during thunderstorm days.
4. Never take hold of two wires or a wire or rod or probe in such a way that you complete a circuit through yourself.
5. Stray earth currents, accidental contacts or ground faults in the power system may produce an undeterminable difference of potential between two points, so use rubber gloves and handle ground wires under test as if they are energized.
25. range of frequencies of a device, within which its performance, in respect to some characteristics conform to specified limits; the difference between the upper and lower limits of the operating frequency of the device...
Answer: Bandwith
26. band of frequencies occupied by the aggregate of all the information signals used to modulate a carrier...
Answer: Baseband
27. a group of two or more cells connected together to furnish current by conversion of chemical, thermal, solar or nuclear energy into electrical energy...
Answer: Battery
28. a low resistance electrical connection between two cable sheaths, between two ground connections or between similar parts of two circuits...
Answer: Bond
29. a conductor or group of conductors, that serve as a common connection for two or more circuits...
Answer: Bus
30. assembly of insulated conductors into a compact form which is covered by a flexible, waterproof, protective covering...
Answer: Cable
31. the complete electrical path between terminals over which telecommunications are provided...
Answer: Circuit
32. the vertical space reserved along the side of a pole or tower to permit ready access for linemen to equipment and conductors located thereon...
Answer: Climbing Space
33. anything such as a wire or cable which is suitable for the carrying of an electric current...
Answer: Conductor
34. transmitting and or receiving of information signals, or messages between two or more points...
Answer: Communication
35. abbreviation for decibel which is one-tenth of a bel. A unit expressing the ratio of two voltages, currents or powers. It is equal to 20 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the two voltages or two currents and 10 times the common logarithm of the ratio of the two powers...
Answer: dB
36. insulated wires, used to run a subscribers line from the terminal on the pole to the protector at the house or building...
Answer: Dropwire
37. the branch of science and technology which deals with the control and utilization of electron flow...
Answer: Electronics
38. the selective interconnection of channels of communication by means consisting essentially if not entirely of electronic circuitry and circuit elements...
Answer: Electronic Switching
39. one that is designed and constructed to withstand an explosion og a gas or vapour that may occur within it or in its immediate vicinity and to prevent the ignition of the gas or vapour surrounding or within its enclosure...
Answer: Explosion proof
40. a part which can be inadvertently touched or approached nearer than a safe distance...
Answer: Exposed Part
41. anything used or available for use in the furnishing of communication service...
Answer: Facility
42. the elements used or available for use in the furnishing of communication service, such as radio facilities, outside plant facilities, indoor plant facilities, etc...
Answer: Facilities
43. a physical condition that causes a device, a component or a element to fail to perform in a required manner...
Answer: Fault
44. a current that flows from one conductor to ground or to another conductor owing to any abnormal connection (including an arc) between the two...
Answer: Fault current
45. apparatus so treated such that it will not maintain a flame or will not be injured readily when subjected to flame...
Answer: Flame Proof
46. property of materials or structures such that they will not convey flame or continue to burn for longer times than specified in the appropriate flame test...
Answer: Flame Retarding
47. a discharge through air, around or over the surface of solid, liquid or other insulation, between parts of different potential of polarity, produced by the application of voltage such that the breakdown path becomes sufficiently ionized to maintain an electric arc...
Answer: Flashover
48. a device used for protection against excessive currents. Consisting of a short length of fusible metal strip which melts when the current through it exceeds the rated amount for a definite time...
Answer: Fuse
49. a conducting connection, whether intentional or accidental, by which an electric circuit or equipment is connected to earth, or to some conducting body of relatively large extent that serves in place of the earth...
Answer: Ground
50. a bus to which the grounds from individual pieces of equipment are connected, and, that, in turn, is connected to ground at one or more points...
Answer: Ground Bus
51. a configuration of grounding conductors arrange around a structure such as building, tower footing, tower guy anchor etc. normally connected to an earth ground at one or more points
Answer: Ground Ring
52. a tension member (of solid or stranded wires) used to withstand an otherwise unbalanced force on a pole or other overhead line structures...
Answer: Guy
53. a guy extending from a pole or structure or tree and is sometimes called a span guy...
Answer: Guy, Overhead
54. a guy which has its lower anchorage in the earth...
Answer: Guy, Anchor
55. a guy which has any part less than 2.5 meters from the vertical plane of any electric power conductor of more than 250 volts...
Answer: Guy Exposed
56. a guy which has any part within a vertical distance of less than 2.5 meters from the level of power conductors and a radial distance of less than 1.8 meters from the surface of a wooden pole or structure...
Answer: Guy in Proximity
57. covered, shielded, fenced, enclosed, or otherwise protected by means of suitable covers or casings, barrier rails or screens, or platform to remove the likelihood of dangerous contact with or approach by persons or objects to a point of danger...
Answer: Guarded
58. an opening in an underground run or system into which workers reach, but do not enter. A subsurface box having a cover flush with the ground...
Answer: Handhole
59. any condition which imperils life, limb and property...
Answer: Hazard
60. separated from other conducting surfaces by a dielectric substance or air space permanently offering a high resistance to the passage of current and to disruptive discharge through the substance or space. When anyobject is said to be insulated, it is understood to be insulated in suitable manner for
conditions to which it is subjected. Otherwise, it is, within the purpose of this code, uninsulated...
Answer: Insulated
61. occupancy of poles or structures by two or more different entities by mutual agreement...
Answer: Joint Use
62. a device designed to protect apparatus from high transient voltage, by diverting surge current to ground and capable of repeating this function as specified...
Answer: Lightning Arrester
63. the channels or conductors and their supporting or containing components or structures usually located outdoors which are used for transmission/reception of information/intelligence in communication service (telephone, telegraph, data telemetering, video, etc.)...
Answer: Lines, Communication
64. the conductors and their supporting or containing structures which are located outdoors used for transmitting a supply of electrical energy...
Answer: Lines, Power
65. all of the work required to keep the plant, circuits, lines, facilities, systems and services up to standards. This includes testing, trouble clearing, repairing, and replacing defective elements...
Answer: Maintenance
66. a subsurface chamber, large enough for a person to enter, in the route of one or more conduit runs, and affording facilities for placing and maintaining in the runs, conductors, cables and any associated apparatus...
Answer: Manhole
67. operated by mechanical force, applied directly by personal intervention...
Answer: Manual
68. stranded steel wires in a group which generally is not a part of the conducting system, its primary function being to support wires or cables of the system...
Answer: Messenger
69. any unwanted disturbance in a communication system which tends to obscure the clarity and validity of a signal in relation to its intended end use...
Answer: Noise
70. a control, usually a knob, pushbutton or lever, provided to enable the user to cause the appliance to perform its intended function, without the use of tools, when the appliance is in normal operating condition...
Answer: Operating Control
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71. a general term applied to the whole or portion of the physical property of a communication company which contributes to the furnishing of communication service...
Answer: Plant
72. all plant which is inside of buildings...
Answer: Plant, Inside
73. all plant which is out of doors not in buildings, such as poles, conduits, cables, etc. installed overhead or underground...
Answer: Plant, Outside
74. capable of being accomplished by reasonably available and economic means...
Answer: Practicable
75. a device which provides protection from overvoltage and or over-current...
Answer: Protector
76. a protector whose voltage limiting element utilizes carbon blocks...
Answer: Protector, Carbon Block
77. a protector whose voltage limiting element employs electrodes in a gas filled (neon, argon, etc.) envelope...
Answer: Protector, Gas Tube
78. persons trained and authorized for the construction, maintenance and operation of the apparatus, circuit or system and responsible for the safety precautions involved...
Answer: Qualified
79. any energy which radiated in the form of radio waves, infrared (heat) waves, light waves, x-rays. etc...
Answer: Radiant Energy
80. the spreading out of radiant energy
Answer: Radiate
81. a metallic rod, driven into the ground to provide an electrical connection to the earth...
Answer: Rod, Ground
82. a metallic rod carried above the highest point of a pole or structure and connected to earth by a heavy copper conductor intended to carry lightning currents directly to earth...
Answer: Rod, Lightning
83. that work which in any way changes the identity of the plant or station or portions thereof...
Answer: Reconstruction
84. the installation from the terminal on the pole to the protector at the customers premises...
Answer: Service Drop
85. the maximum departure, measured vertically, of a wire or cable in a given span from a straight line between the two points of support of the span at 60 degrees Celsius and no wind loading...
Answer: Sag
86. the horizontal distance between two adjacent supporting points of a cable or wire...
Answer: Span
87. the branch circuit supplying electrical energy to the equipment or appliance...
Answer: Supply Circuit
88. a configuration or arrangement of one or more electronic equipment producing the desired performance...
Answer: System, Electronic
89. any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, visual or other electromagnetic system or such other system that may in the future become known or developed...
Answer: Telecommunication
90. the pulling stress required to break a material, such as a wire, expressed in kilograms of stress per cross-sectional area...
Answer: Tensile Strength
91. mechanical stress caused by forces which tend to stretch or severe the material stressed...
Answer: Tension
92. one-half of the tensile strength for messengers Allowable guys, etc. and one-fourth of the tensile strength for communication cables and wires...
Answer: Tension, Maximum
93. the horizontal displacement of a point on the tower axis from its no-wind load position at that elevation...
Answer: Tower Displacement
94. tower sway at any specified elevation shall be defined as the angular displacement of a tangent to the tower axis at the elevation from its no-wind load position at that elevation...
Answer: Tower Sway
95. the horizontal angular displacement of the tower from its no-wind position at that elevation...
Answer: Tower Twist
96. describing communication facilities installed below the surface of the earth...
Answer: Underground
97. the space extending laterally from the climbing space, reserved for working below, above and between conductor levels; the space surrounding a device or equipment...
Answer: Working Space