Abstract: An electrical power conductor support assembly has an upper support assembly. The upper support assembly has a central wheel configured to receive an electrical power conductor and allow the electrical power conductor to be pulled along the wheel, such that the wheel rotates as the electrical power conductor is pulled. A pair of opposing arms extend obliquely from either side of the wheel. The arms guide the electrical power conductor toward the wheel. A support assembly extends below the wheel and includes a support arm pivotally attached to a connection. The connection has a plurality of connecting ears adapted to releasably connect the support assembly to an extension arm of a utility truck.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for selecting and recording multi-directional communication packet traffic in a compact manner in realtime while maintaining relative time between the selected packets passing in one direction and the selected packets passing in another direction. The apparatus includes a protocol interface, a block datapath, a record resource, and a trace merge memory. The protocol interface receives X and Y channel packets with interspersed idle times, segments the packets into time-aligned X and Y blocks, and eliminates idle times. The block datapath merges the X and Y blocks, then filters unneeded X and Y channel packets by purging the X and Y blocks from those packets. The record resource compares patterns for identifying the unneeded packets and trigger events. The trace merge memory records the time-aligned filtered merged block stream in a compact form for later analysis.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing with a network without connecting to the network by shadowing a slave device while a master device connects the slave device to the network. The master device maintains a system clock time. The master and slave devices exchange communication traffic during time slots on channels in a channel hopping sequence derived from the system clock time. The method and apparatus obtain a slave clock time in an inquiry response packet from a slave device when the master and slave devices are not connected in the network and then use the slave clock time for shadowing the slave device for receiving a master page frequency hop synchronization (FHS) packet having the system clock time.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing with communication traffic in a BLUETOOTH network without joining the network. The apparatus transmits an inquiry signal and receives an inquiry response signal having a coarse system clock time. The apparatus uses the coarse system clock time for estimating an initial channel in a channel hopping sequence then advances channels through the sequence in steps of four or more for scan window time periods of four or more time slot periods until a communication traffic signal is recognized. The time-of-arrival of the traffic signal is used for refining the coarse system clock time in order to acquire the exact system clock time. The exact system clock time is used by the analyzer for deriving the channels and timing of the sequence for synchronizing to subsequent communication traffic signals.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing with communication traffic in a network without joining the network. The method and apparatus synchronize to the communication traffic by mimicking a BLUETOOTH slave device in order to obtain a preliminary or unconnected system clock time in a master page frequency hop synchronization (FHS) packet from a BLUETOOTH master device when the master device is not connected to any BLUETOOTH slave devices, and then updating the preliminary system clock time with a time-of-arrival of a communication traffic packet from the master device after a connection is formed between the master device and a BLUETOOTH slave device.