Electrical tests and their applications in the maintenance of telephone transmission

THE installation and maintenance of the circuits in a telephone plant employed for the transmission of speech require the use of various testing schemes to insure a high grade of commercial service. Circuits are engineered and installed to meet the established standards of transmission in the most economical manner and this having been done the next step is to provide an adequate testing program. A number of the electrical tests required in this program include well known laboratory methods adapted so that they can be readily applied in the field, while others have been developed for particular use in telephone maintenance work.