European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 27, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 11 Capri Landers ets improvements reportedly on the Way two years ago the Advent of the european Telephone system ets was hailed As the dawning of a new age in telephonic communications for . Forces in Germany. All sorts of new services would be available. Auto Matic Call Back Camp on Call transfers Etc. One would be Able to Call across Post and not have to scream into the pm pc to be heard More lines would be available no waiting just pick up and dial. Sadly All of the aforementioned services and gadgetry Don t do much Good if you arc unable to get through to the person you Are calling. Calling across Post is great. All the gadgets work. But for those of us in Amburg whose Mission requires calling such exotic places As Ansbach. Heidelberg or even or Langon gel Ling Pas the rapid Busy avg nil can or a half Day align ment. Not always. Just 90 percent of the time. What s going to happen when something serious Tran Spires and no one can get the word Carrier pigeons the bund swear uses the bund Spost by Telephone system and it works. Why Don t we convince me that the Cost of erecting and maintaining our own ineffective sys tem is cheaper and More reliable than the by. Our own system is no More secure than theirs to that can t be it. As an expression of  for your efforts i be sent along a Littfe ditty that you can sing As you Fuli iely dial the phone in search of answers. It ii help you pass the time and keep your blood pressure Down Sung to the tune of Row your  dial dial dial your phone see How far you get i be dialled it for an hour now and Haven t got through yet Busy signal every time i guess the trunks Are full recordings say please dial again and i say this is Bull. Dial dial dial your phone the commies Are on the Way but no one s Gonna get the word the phones Don t work today. If old Mabell can do it and the bund Spost can too then Why do we use ets i really wish i knew. Do we just have too Many phones or just too dam few lines i wish someone could fix it up before we lose our minds. Master sgt. Ian d. Stewart ambers Germany editor s note capt. Brian w. Popken Public pen pals hit me in your pen pal column my hobbies Are movies Reading novels and dancing. I am 24 years old and worm like to write to Peuplie Between 24-30. Koran English  Eva Mon. Posl Catherine. Jamaica i am interested m pen pals from All Over Trie world my hobbies Are watching to. Seism a. Swimming Reading and playing Badminton. I am 21 years old Afna ban Alconera Batavia. Gui Huangan Metros Oriental. Phil ii affairs officer 5th signal come replies As the writer suspects the an Borg area has some of the poorest service in the entire ets network. It is an area that suffers from an acute Case of Telephone congestion and we have taken several emergency and immediate Steps to provide a remedy. We have already taken emergency action to buy and install the necessary extra ets trunk lines for both Grafe Woehr and Amber from the by. With current and projected Levels or use these extra lines should restore the area to an acceptable level of 97 percent Success in completing Calls oals de the immediate area. The new lines should be connected and Able to serve callers sometime in the next 90 Days. No. Orr not. Howler a run a to a one time problem. Since installing the ets system communications engineers have measured congestion or Lack fit throughout the system by counting the number of Calls coming from and going into each area. Over a period of time the Amberg area has been identified As one of the most congested areas in the entire ets net work. As that has occurred we have looked for the underlying reasons to Best cure the problem. In ambers the problem can now be largely attributed to four major factors ets switches and lines supporting he a Bergana primarily Grafe Woehr and Nuernberg were de signed with the rest of the ets system in 1981 an installed in 1986 to support projected requirements decisions were made subsequent to the design phase that increased military use of Grafe Woehr and the sur room Dong area patting a greater Load on the system Amberg competes with each user Down the line to gain Access to the limited number of lines available in each subsequent switch  throughout the system continue to place in Aarts oried or unnecessary Calls causing a further Strain on the entire network. The result for Amberg of this Chain of circumstances is the decreasing Chance of a successful can As it passes for example through three switches on the Way to  an average the probability a Cater will be successful going from Amberg to Grafe Woehr b 80 percent from grate Woehr to Nuernberg it is 60 percent after that the percentages continue to affect calling Success. If the is. Government like the Bunde Spost made Money from each Telephone Call placed on its govern ment system the solution to this problem would be obvious install More lines and make More Money. Unfortunately it costs Money instead. In the Case of the band Estehr receiving by service it is matter of the German government taking Money from one pocket and putting it in another. The is. Government pays Cash. Our annual phone Bill from the by now comes to nearly $26 million. This is not nearly so rapid As we would have wished but. In the meantime Yon can help minimize difficulties by reminding those around Yon to keep it official and keep it Short correction on Stark i am writing in reference to two related articles concerning the . Frigate Stark. I would like to request a correction be made. The Stark was built in Seattle along with her sister ship the Aubrey Fitch. Both figs were based in Mayport a. As a former Crew member i was a Little distressed that someone could not do a Little research. Petty officer 2.c. Andrew m. Johns Rota Spain Correct Todd shipyards and Bath Iron works built the whale class. Editor dear Ann Landers Christmas will be Here before we know it. I Hope you will not run another one of those Nasty diatribes against photocopied Holiday newsletters. Millions of readers take your word As gospel. I my advice to people who Don t like the newsy chronicles is throw them out i for one enjoy them immensely. They War show a great Deal More thought �. Than a Christmas card with a f printed name at the Bottom. My husband and 1 have been sending Holiday newsletters for years. If we get no response we take that person off the list. Invariably we receive notes like this we missed your annual letter. We Hope nothing is wrong. Please write and say you Are  i will be looking for this letter in your column mid november Ann. Please Don t fail me. Hayward calif., Reader dear Hay Many people feel As Yon do and Over the years have written to say so. The letter below arrived in the same bag of mail with yours dear Ann Landers please print the enclosed soonest. It s one of my favorite columns and deserves to be seen again. Mil Lions of readers will bless you. Palo Alto Tribune Reader dear pal Here it is with full knowledge that an equal number of readers will be furious. Dear a i Landers the season to be Jolly is about to clutch us by the Throat again. Permit me to comment on those unbearable Christmas letters from friends relatives and peo ple you never hear from any other time of the year. To put it simply they arc Boring As hell i could manage very Well without details of Uncle Hep i s hemp Rhoid operation and aunt Hilda s Strol. I is of if i Don i know that Cousin Jeff bought his wife Mildred an eight foot living room sofa and that Peggy and Mark gave each other Bis and hers Cadillac. It seems inappropriate somehow to inform friends and Farnill in a nationwide mailing that Carol is Back with alcoholics Anonymous and doing much bet Ter than last year when she backslide drove straight through the garage and smashed into the guest House. The insensitivity of people who Send those interminable brag sheets baffles me. They think nothing of reporting on the physical ailment of Kinfolk but they never mention their kids who arc flunking in school or Are Strung out on drugs. No word about the business that is failing the pain of Early retirement or having to sell the second car. All we know is that they had a terrific time on the trip to the Orient and the Pope could t have been nicer when they had a Semi private audience last july. And of course we just love hearing about their fantastic trips to Tahiti and the Bahamas while we can t afford a weekend in Pebble Beach. Please print this letter Ann Landers. I be been writ ing it in my head for the last 12 years. This one is going to the Post office no matter what. San Diego dear san Diego i doubt that you will discourage All but a few from sending those annual Christmas letters but i m willing to help Yon try. Those who write those interminable chronicles firmly believe that 90 percent of the ones they receive Are a crashing bore but theirs Are utterly fascinating. Los Angeles times Syndicate columnist Undeine welcomes your letters. You can write to her m care of the stars and stripes Apo 09211, us. 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