Inexpensive point-to-point solution needed

A couple of guys in a pickup truck were dogging a crew laying cable nearby and after dark proceeded to unearth three hundred feet of fiber; they must have been surprised when the scrap yard probably rejected it.

Michael

Please try to walk in the other person's moccasins from time to time; not everyone works in the large (and more prosperous) U.S. metro areas. Some of us still are constrained by other economic realities and work in regions struggling to avoid collapse.

Michael

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:22:30 -0600, msg wrote in :

Fair enough, and guilty as charged -- I was only speaking of the greater San Francisco Bay Area. [blush]

Only 300ft? I told them to grab the whole roll off the truck.

It's really hard to get technically qualified help these days.

I'm slightly entangled with the local recycler:

Basically, the scrap business is barely profitable as China is not buying much these days. Buyers are paying less than 10% of what they were paying a year ago. The only items in demand are precious or scarce metals (i.e. gold, silver, solder, copper, etc) which basically means circuit boards. Nobody wants plastic or difficult to handle waste, such as TV's. The only reason that they take monitors is that Calif subsidizes the handling with money from the "monitor tax". I literally cry over what gets donated and trashed. The store does its best to resell some of the good stuff, but the demand for repairable items is rather limited. The box of fiber patch cables came from there. Nobody wanted it (or even knew what it was).

These are old (2005), but offer something to think about:

I have photos of the current operation, but I was asked not to post them.