Rural Electrification Administration

Telephone Engineering and Construction Manual

Physical Copies Courtesy of Dennis Hock

Section Date Issue Size Title

Sec. 000 1991-10-09 530.76 KB Telephone Program Publications
Sec. 101 1962-12-01 3 123.81 KB Objectives and Scope of the REA Telephone Engineering and Construction Manual
Sec. 102 1981-03-01 70 565.22 KB Numerical Index (Telephone Portion)
Sec. 102 1990-06-01 73 298.03 KB Numerical Index
Sec. 105 1979-10-01 1 399.19 KB Summary of REA Construction Procedures
Sec. 116 1965-12-01 1 2.35 MB Plant Engineering and Record System
Sec. 116 A1 1966-03-01 1 33.35 KB Plant Engineering and Record System
Sec. 118 1978-05-01 1 1.30 MB Plant Records System - Serving Area Value Engineering for Rural Systems
Sec. 128 1955-05-01 1 78.30 KB Cutsheet
Sec. 141 1966-06-01 2 229.41 KB Fire Alarm Service (Community Dial Systems)
Sec. 157 1967-05-01 4 1.26 MB Customer Toll Dialing
Sec. 201 1983-11-01 5 337.45 KB Introduction to Rural Telephone System Designs
Sec. 203 1971-04-01 1 367.58 KB Existing Plant Considerations for a Telephone System Design
Sec. 204 1971-04-01 1 2.40 MB Telephone System Design
Sec. 205 1971-05-01 5 2.06 MB Assembly and Arrangement of an Area Coverage Design
Sec. 206 1971-05-01 2 2.22 MB Area Coverage Survey (REA Bulletin 322-1)
Sec. 207 1974-06-01 1 421.98 KB Design Criteria for Plant Reinforcement - Upgrading From Four-Party to All One-Party
Sec. 208 1965-03-01 5 812.02 KB Local Exchange Numbering Plans and Selector Level Assignments
Sec. 210 1974-07-01 8 554.64 KB Telephone System Design - Sizing Criteria
Sec. 212 1970-11-01 3 1.79 MB Ringing Systems
Sec. 212 A1 1971-01-01 3 80.56 KB Ringing Systems
Sec. 212 A2 1973-05-01 3 67.14 KB Ringing Systems
Sec. 215 1960-11-01 2 1.79 MB Rehabilitation of Existing Outside Plant
Sec. 218 1987-02-01 4 780.39 KB Plant Annual Cost Data for System Design Purposes
Sec. 218 A3 1965-06-01 2 113.99 KB Plant Annual Cost Data for System Design Purposes
Sec. 218 A3 1965-06-01 2 113.99 KB Plant Annual Cost Data for System Design Purposes
Sec. 221 1966-06-01 3 2.16 MB Assignment of Line and Station Numbers (Terminal Per Station Systems)
Sec. 230 1986-02-01 2 524.91 KB General Principles of Feeder-Distribution Cable Engineering
Sec. 231 1986-02-01 2 2.56 MB Design Techniques of Feeder-Distribution Cable Engineering
Sec. 232 1986-02-01 2 1011.04 KB Transmission Design and Costs Considerations of Feeder-Distribution Cable Engineering
Sec. 301 1976-12-01 3 687.05 KB Central Office Buildings
Sec. 302 1989-04-01 6 1.67 MB Power Requirements for Community Central Office Equipment
Sec. 304 1979-02-01 1 2.03 MB Central Office Replacement Economic Studies Guidelines
Sec. 306 1985-09-01 1 571.22 KB Earthquake Bracing for Central Office Equipment
Sec. 319 1978-10-01 4 2.43 MB Interoffice Trunking and Signaling
Sec. 320 1990-06-01 5 604.05 KB Emergency Generating and Charging Equipment
Sec. 322 1990-02-01 3 2.82 MB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Digital Central Office Equipment Requirements (Parts III and IV of REA Form 522)
Sec. 323 1979-09-01 1 1.23 MB Fundamentals of Digital Techniques and Switching
Sec. 324 1980-04-01 1 476.63 KB Digital Terminology
Sec. 325 1966-11-01 7 1.64 MB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Dial Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 325 A1 1969-04-01 7 155.96 KB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Dial Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 325 A2 1969-12-01 7 171.85 KB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Dial Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 326 1963-04-01 2 377.91 KB Application Guide for the Preparation of Part III Specifications - Detailed Toll Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 327 1978-01-01 4 1.38 MB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Equipment Requirements for Direct Distance Dialing Equipment
Sec. 328 1978-06-01 3 532.08 KB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Equipment Requirements for Automatic Number Identification Equipment
Sec. 329 1964-09-01 1 416.21 KB Expansion of Existing Dial Central Office Switchboards
Sec. 329 A1 1965-05-01 1 60.74 KB Expansion of Existing Dial Central Office Switchboards
Sec. 329 A2 1965-10-01 1 97.08 KB Expansion of Existing Dial Central Office Switchboards
Sec. 329 A3 1967-04-01 1 134.44 KB Expansion of Existing Dial Central Office Switchboards
Sec. 330 1970-06-01 4 260.86 KB Maximum Electrical Subscriber Loops Attained with Long Line Adapters
Sec. 331 1967-07-01 1 495.49 KB The Application of Common Mode Operation to Central Office Equipment
Sec. 331 A1 1967-10-01 1 38.22 KB The Application of Common Mode Operation to Central Office Equipment
Sec. 332 1969-08-01 1 235.49 KB Guide for Utilization of Central Office Loop Extenders
Sec. 335 1976-04-01 2 2.84 MB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Common Control Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 335 A1 1977-08-01 2 36.12 KB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Common Control Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 340 1979-01-01 2 424.69 KB Subscriber Line Concentrators
Sec. 341 1984-10-01 2 306.12 KB Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Line Concentrator Requirements
Sec. 350 1964-09-01 1 476.37 KB Basic Types of Switching Systems
Sec. 463 1958-01-01 1 1.98 MB REA-1 Transposition System
Sec. 465 1956-07-01 1 450.78 KB REA-V1 Tranposition System
Sec. 470 1980-06-01 1 1.97 MB Switched Special Services and Private Branch Exchange Services
Sec. 500 1960-03-01 1 712.99 KB Telephone Traffic
Sec. 510 1956-04-01 4 2.74 MB Telephone Traffic - Dial Central Office Equipment Switch Quantities
Sec. 510 A2 1962-01-01 4 214.33 KB Telephone Traffic - Dial Central Office Equipment Switch Quantities
Sec. 510 A3 1963-11-01 4 228.32 KB Telephone Traffic - Dial Central Office Equipment Switch Quantities
Sec. 511 1956-06-01 1 966.37 KB Telephone Traffic - Dial Equipment for Toll Centers
Sec. 512 1957-03-01 1 856.87 KB Telephone Traffic - Manual Toll Board Equipment
Sec. 515 1967-08-01 3 954.90 KB Telephone Traffic - Measurements
Sec. 516 1972-01-01 2 1.52 MB Application Guide for a Traffic Study of a Step-by-Step Telephone Central Office
Sec. 520 1957-03-01 1 3.32 MB Central Office Equipment Switch Quantities (Large Central Offices)
Sec. 525 1966-07-01 1 466.03 KB Telephone Traffic - Dial Common Control System Equipment Quantities
Sec. 601 1969-10-01 2 520.09 KB Outline of the National Electrical Safety Code
Sec. 602 1962-05-01 4 1.62 MB Clearances
Sec. 605 1979-01-01 4 277.31 KB Right-of-Way Clearing and Trimming Assembly Units - Aerial Plant
Sec. 610 1979-01-01 3 150.69 KB Poles
Sec. 611 1960-03-01 3 1.12 MB Design of Pole Lines
Sec. 611 A3 1966-10-01 3 121.83 KB Design of Pole Lines
Sec. 615 1962-11-01 5 1.99 MB Design of Bare Open Wire Plant
Sec. 615 A1 1963-06-01 5 38.22 KB Design of Bare Open Wire Plant
Sec. 616 1961-01-01 4 1.20 MB Construction of Bare Open Wire Plant
Sec. 616 A1 1962-03-01 4 103.51 KB Construction of Bare Open Wire Plant
Sec. 617 1954-04-01 1 3.47 MB Railroad Crossing Specification
Sec. 617 A1 1969-09-01 1 29.29 KB Railroad Crossing Specification
Sec. 620 1966-05-01 2 2.43 MB Design and Construction of Figure 8 Distribution Wire
Sec. 620 A1 1969-09-01 2 42.43 KB Design and Construction of Figure 8 Distribution Wire
Sec. 625 1962-08-01 6 2.80 MB Open Wire Pole Top Assembly Units
Sec. 626 1962-06-01 2 3.58 MB Staking of Aerial Plant
Sec. 627 1955-05-01 2 362.49 KB Route and Pole Numbering
Sec. 628 1968-01-01 2 1.73 MB Plastic Insulated Cable Plant Layout
Sec. 629 1977-01-01 3 882.31 KB Cable Plant Layout - Serving Area Value Engineering for Rural Systems
Sec. 630 1962-03-01 3 2.30 MB Design of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 630 A2 1966-10-01 3 831.52 KB Design of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 630 A3 1979-01-01 3 365.58 KB Design of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 635 A3 1979-03-01 1 9.96 MB Construction of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 635 A4 1979-08-01 1 681.18 KB Construction of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 911 A1 1980-05-01 2 417.96 KB Station Carrier Application

Section	Date	Issue	Size	Title
Sec. 000	1991-10-09		530.76 KB	Telephone Program Publications
Sec. 101	1962-12-01	3	123.81 KB	Objectives and Scope of the REA Telephone Engineering and Construction Manual
Sec. 102	1981-03-01	70	565.22 KB	Numerical Index (Telephone Portion)
Sec. 102	1990-06-01	73	298.03 KB	Numerical Index
Sec. 105	1979-10-01	1	399.19 KB	Summary of REA Construction Procedures
Sec. 116	1965-12-01	1	2.35 MB	Plant Engineering and Record System
Sec. 116 A1	1966-03-01	1	33.35 KB	Plant Engineering and Record System
Sec. 118	1978-05-01	1	1.30 MB	Plant Records System - Serving Area Value Engineering for Rural Systems
Sec. 128	1955-05-01	1	78.30 KB	Cutsheet
Sec. 141	1966-06-01	2	229.41 KB	Fire Alarm Service (Community Dial Systems)
Sec. 157	1967-05-01	4	1.26 MB	Customer Toll Dialing
Sec. 201	1983-11-01	5	337.45 KB	Introduction to Rural Telephone System Designs
Sec. 203	1971-04-01	1	367.58 KB	Existing Plant Considerations for a Telephone System Design
Sec. 204	1971-04-01	1	2.40 MB	Telephone System Design
Sec. 205	1971-05-01	5	2.06 MB	Assembly and Arrangement of an Area Coverage Design
Sec. 206	1971-05-01	2	2.22 MB	Area Coverage Survey (REA Bulletin 322-1)
Sec. 207	1974-06-01	1	421.98 KB	Design Criteria for Plant Reinforcement - Upgrading From Four-Party to All One-Party
Sec. 208	1965-03-01	5	812.02 KB	Local Exchange Numbering Plans and Selector Level Assignments
Sec. 210	1974-07-01	8	554.64 KB	Telephone System Design - Sizing Criteria
Sec. 212	1970-11-01	3	1.79 MB	Ringing Systems
Sec. 212 A1	1971-01-01	3	80.56 KB	Ringing Systems
Sec. 212 A2	1973-05-01	3	67.14 KB	Ringing Systems
Sec. 215	1960-11-01	2	1.79 MB	Rehabilitation of Existing Outside Plant
Sec. 218	1987-02-01	4	780.39 KB	Plant Annual Cost Data for System Design Purposes
Sec. 218 A3	1965-06-01	2	113.99 KB	Plant Annual Cost Data for System Design Purposes
Sec. 218 A3	1965-06-01	2	113.99 KB	Plant Annual Cost Data for System Design Purposes
Sec. 221	1966-06-01	3	2.16 MB	Assignment of Line and Station Numbers (Terminal Per Station Systems)
Sec. 230	1986-02-01	2	524.91 KB	General Principles of Feeder-Distribution Cable Engineering
Sec. 231	1986-02-01	2	2.56 MB	Design Techniques of Feeder-Distribution Cable Engineering
Sec. 232	1986-02-01	2	1011.04 KB	Transmission Design and Costs Considerations of Feeder-Distribution Cable Engineering
Sec. 301	1976-12-01	3	687.05 KB	Central Office Buildings
Sec. 302	1989-04-01	6	1.67 MB	Power Requirements for Community Central Office Equipment
Sec. 304	1979-02-01	1	2.03 MB	Central Office Replacement Economic Studies Guidelines
Sec. 306	1985-09-01	1	571.22 KB	Earthquake Bracing for Central Office Equipment
Sec. 319	1978-10-01	4	2.43 MB	Interoffice Trunking and Signaling
Sec. 320	1990-06-01	5	604.05 KB	Emergency Generating and Charging Equipment
Sec. 322	1990-02-01	3	2.82 MB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Digital Central Office Equipment Requirements (Parts III and IV of REA Form 522)
Sec. 323	1979-09-01	1	1.23 MB	Fundamentals of Digital Techniques and Switching
Sec. 324	1980-04-01	1	476.63 KB	Digital Terminology
Sec. 325	1966-11-01	7	1.64 MB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Dial Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 325 A1	1969-04-01	7	155.96 KB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Dial Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 325 A2	1969-12-01	7	171.85 KB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Dial Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 326	1963-04-01	2	377.91 KB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Part III Specifications - Detailed Toll Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 327	1978-01-01	4	1.38 MB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Equipment Requirements for Direct Distance Dialing Equipment
Sec. 328	1978-06-01	3	532.08 KB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Equipment Requirements for Automatic Number Identification Equipment
Sec. 329	1964-09-01	1	416.21 KB	Expansion of Existing Dial Central Office Switchboards
Sec. 329 A1	1965-05-01	1	60.74 KB	Expansion of Existing Dial Central Office Switchboards
Sec. 329 A2	1965-10-01	1	97.08 KB	Expansion of Existing Dial Central Office Switchboards
Sec. 329 A3	1967-04-01	1	134.44 KB	Expansion of Existing Dial Central Office Switchboards
Sec. 330	1970-06-01	4	260.86 KB	Maximum Electrical Subscriber Loops Attained with Long Line Adapters
Sec. 331	1967-07-01	1	495.49 KB	The Application of Common Mode Operation to Central Office Equipment
Sec. 331 A1	1967-10-01	1	38.22 KB	The Application of Common Mode Operation to Central Office Equipment
Sec. 332	1969-08-01	1	235.49 KB	Guide for Utilization of Central Office Loop Extenders
Sec. 335	1976-04-01	2	2.84 MB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Common Control Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 335 A1	1977-08-01	2	36.12 KB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Common Control Central Office Equipment Requirements
Sec. 340	1979-01-01	2	424.69 KB	Subscriber Line Concentrators
Sec. 341	1984-10-01	2	306.12 KB	Application Guide for the Preparation of Detailed Line Concentrator Requirements
Sec. 350	1964-09-01	1	476.37 KB	Basic Types of Switching Systems
Sec. 463	1958-01-01	1	1.98 MB	REA-1 Transposition System
Sec. 465	1956-07-01	1	450.78 KB	REA-V1 Tranposition System
Sec. 470	1980-06-01	1	1.97 MB	Switched Special Services and Private Branch Exchange Services
Sec. 500	1960-03-01	1	712.99 KB	Telephone Traffic
Sec. 510	1956-04-01	4	2.74 MB	Telephone Traffic - Dial Central Office Equipment Switch Quantities
Sec. 510 A2	1962-01-01	4	214.33 KB	Telephone Traffic - Dial Central Office Equipment Switch Quantities
Sec. 510 A3	1963-11-01	4	228.32 KB	Telephone Traffic - Dial Central Office Equipment Switch Quantities
Sec. 511	1956-06-01	1	966.37 KB	Telephone Traffic - Dial Equipment for Toll Centers
Sec. 512	1957-03-01	1	856.87 KB	Telephone Traffic - Manual Toll Board Equipment
Sec. 515	1967-08-01	3	954.90 KB	Telephone Traffic - Measurements
Sec. 516	1972-01-01	2	1.52 MB	Application Guide for a Traffic Study of a Step-by-Step Telephone Central Office
Sec. 520	1957-03-01	1	3.32 MB	Central Office Equipment Switch Quantities (Large Central Offices)
Sec. 525	1966-07-01	1	466.03 KB	Telephone Traffic - Dial Common Control System Equipment Quantities
Sec. 601	1969-10-01	2	520.09 KB	Outline of the National Electrical Safety Code
Sec. 602	1962-05-01	4	1.62 MB	Clearances
Sec. 605	1979-01-01	4	277.31 KB	Right-of-Way Clearing and Trimming Assembly Units - Aerial Plant
Sec. 610	1979-01-01	3	150.69 KB	Poles
Sec. 611	1960-03-01	3	1.12 MB	Design of Pole Lines
Sec. 611 A3	1966-10-01	3	121.83 KB	Design of Pole Lines
Sec. 615	1962-11-01	5	1.99 MB	Design of Bare Open Wire Plant
Sec. 615 A1	1963-06-01	5	38.22 KB	Design of Bare Open Wire Plant
Sec. 616	1961-01-01	4	1.20 MB	Construction of Bare Open Wire Plant
Sec. 616 A1	1962-03-01	4	103.51 KB	Construction of Bare Open Wire Plant
Sec. 617	1954-04-01	1	3.47 MB	Railroad Crossing Specification
Sec. 617 A1	1969-09-01	1	29.29 KB	Railroad Crossing Specification
Sec. 620	1966-05-01	2	2.43 MB	Design and Construction of Figure 8 Distribution Wire
Sec. 620 A1	1969-09-01	2	42.43 KB	Design and Construction of Figure 8 Distribution Wire
Sec. 625	1962-08-01	6	2.80 MB	Open Wire Pole Top Assembly Units
Sec. 626	1962-06-01	2	3.58 MB	Staking of Aerial Plant
Sec. 627	1955-05-01	2	362.49 KB	Route and Pole Numbering
Sec. 628	1968-01-01	2	1.73 MB	Plastic Insulated Cable Plant Layout
Sec. 629	1977-01-01	3	882.31 KB	Cable Plant Layout - Serving Area Value Engineering for Rural Systems
Sec. 630	1962-03-01	3	2.30 MB	Design of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 630 A2	1966-10-01	3	831.52 KB	Design of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 630 A3	1979-01-01	3	365.58 KB	Design of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 635 A3	1979-03-01	1	9.96 MB	Construction of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 635 A4	1979-08-01	1	681.18 KB	Construction of Aerial Cable Plant
Sec. 911 A1	1980-05-01	2	417.96 KB	Station Carrier Application