++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[Nograts]

I'm going to be so lonely here in about 6 hours when you guys all go to sleep....

nef

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Go to bed @ 7 PM on Saturday?

that's impossible....

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Go to bed @ 7 PM on Saturday?

that's impossible....

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[Red Squirrel]

I start night shifts tonight.

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[Nograts]

13 hours to go nef.

 

[MongGrel]

nef

 

[Nograts]

12.5 hours nef

 

[MongGrel]

Wife on a Greek Salad/Gyro/Reuben Sangria run, we're having and international Valentines.

I'd usually do Souvlaki, but I wanted to try their Reuben out and was in the mood.

 

[Mixolydian]

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[MongGrel]

:biggrin:

 

[Nograts]

10.6 hours to go nef

 

[Mixolydian]

10.6 hours to go nef

what are you doing

 

[Nograts]

what are you doing

24 hour shiftnef.... or...

Plotting your doom.....mwahahahahaha! No but seriously 24 hour shift. :awe:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that's a long shift. What kind of work do you do?

I work at a NOC but my shifts are 12 hours. Occasionally some OT though. Just started my first night shift in this set of 4.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that's a long shift. What kind of work do you do?

I work at a NOC but my shifts are 12 hours. Occasionally some OT though. Just started my first night shift in this set of 4.

 

[Nograts]

Wow that's a long shift. What kind of work do you do?

I work at a NOC but my shifts are 12 hours. Occasionally some OT though. Just started my first night shift in this set of 4.

Well right now I'm waiting for this phone to ring...it's a very important phone that needs to be answered if someone were to call it. But this weekend duty rotates.

I actually teach borderline down syndrome kids SATCOM garbage on the night shift, but my number was called for...the weekend shift....

Oh and what do you do at the NOC? Just watch lights turn green and red? I had a chance to work at a NOSC awhile ago but took this job instead.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pretty much. We monitor DMS telephony switches, DSLAMs, routers, buildings (temp, AC power, batt voltage, etc), radios, firewalls, pretty much every piece of technology in the region that has to do with telecommunications. We also take all sorts of phone calls from data circuit troubles to police call traces. Night shift is generally pretty quiet especially in winter.

 

[sdifox]

Red Squirrel mans the Shania Twain monitoring station :whiste:

 

[Nograts]

Pretty much. We monitor DMS telephony switches, DSLAMs, routers, buildings (temp, AC power, batt voltage, etc), radios, firewalls, pretty much every piece of technology in the region that has to do with telecommunications. We also take all sorts of phone calls from data circuit troubles to police call traces. Night shift is generally pretty quiet especially in winter.

Hey multiplexing, now yer talkin mah language! I taught that shit last month and just about had the whole class' head explode. Then you should've seen their face when we got to analog to digital conversion. Haha!

What kind of dish and power you pushing?

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[Red Squirrel]

Red Squirrel mans the Shania Twain monitoring station :whiste:

That place is a gold mine! No, really, it is. :awe:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hey multiplexing, now yer talkin mah language! I taught that shit last month and just about had the whole class' head explode. Then you should've seen their face when we got to analog to digital conversion. Haha!

What kind of dish and power you pushing?

I'm not too familiar with all the microwave stuff, I know there's SR500, and I think RD6 and similar as well. If I recall the dishes are about 45 watts or so but probably really depends.

The stuff we play with the most is DMS100. We can go in and clear alarms, run tests, etc... Though everyone tends to have their own expertises. I can do basic stuff like setup phone lines and what not but some people know way more and can get into T1's and stuff. I'm not too familar with the actual commands to work with those. Basically you can go in and see the 24 channels and so on.

Totally forgot to mention we monitor fibre transport as well, though we don't do too much with it as far as troubleshooting, mostly just call someone if it's something major like a ring that is open or big links down. Most of the transport is fibre now days, it's mostly the remote areas that are on radio.

We monitor CDMA cellular too, though that will be decommissioned soon.

At this job you have to know a little bit about everything. Even the oddball stuff that you never really think about, like when you call a number and get the 3 tones saying it's unavailable and it changed, we set that up too.