Join the army.

Travel the world.

Meet interesting, exotic people...

and kill them.

Or... if you're a Royal Signals Engineer, erect telegraph poles all across their land.

Ex R. Sigs squaddie, and even ex-er GPO Engineering apprentice, Johnny Marsden has sent me some photos from his life up an army telegraph pole.  Johnny, who lives considerably less than a million miles from me and has a V8 landrover he'd like help with, tells me he particularly loved the pole work whilst in the services. He also says that he got to play with the full spectrum of PLOH & UG, from open copper to Fibre Optics*¹.
 


Clockwise from top left:

1. All in a day's work for a TeleMech in Borneo;  
2. A messy pole in Romania, but as a world travelled ex-R.Sigs squaddie Johnny says he has seen and worked on much worse. 
3. Cyprus WSBA, jointing in 88mH Loading Coils to an SSAC as part of a ~14 mile mixed cable route that was Loaded & Balanced between Episkopi & Akrotiri.
  
Anyway, Johnny is well on the way to attaining honorary life membership of our most august society. Honorary memberships can be accelerated by means of bribes in the form of interesting telegraph pole photograph submissions (that we can use).  Please send bribes in a plain brown email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

*¹ Will no doubt mean something to our Honorary Technical Advisor, Keith S****.