Nothing personal about you Ken, just my experience
was different. My ham license was not an advantage.
I got my first ham license in 1961. I was hired in 1975.
In 1973 I got my Amateur Extra when you had to have
a full minute of 20 WPM error-less CW both receiving
and sending (which I did with the FCC straight key).
It wasn't until after I worked there that my First
Class Radiotelephone with Radar and Broadcast was
converted into a GROL.
The shop did have a couple of hams working there
and the owner was a ham. We built our own UHF and
microwave repeaters with beautiful shielding and low
power consumption (wind and solar on the mountains).
They also did some interesting trade secret things.
Many of the hams they hired in the past were not
able to service the equipment and left them with the
bias against hams.
Ken Arck wrote:
>
>
> At 06:00 PM 3/31/2010, AA8K73 GMail wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> When I got a job in the 1970's at a big LMR shop in Southern
>> California, they told me they almost didn't hire me because I
>> had an Amateur Radio License. They were unimpressed by most
>> ham's skills.
>
> <---Been a ham since 1967 (at the ripe old age of 13). Had my Novice and
> Tech together for a few years (back then you could hold both!). Got my
> General in 1969, Advanced later that year and finally my Extra Class in
> 1979 or thereabouts, back when you still had to actually copy code at 20
> WPM.
>
> Got my 1st Class RadioTelephone (with radar endorsement) in 1975, at the
> ripe old age of 21. Had it until they replaced it with the * utterly
> useless * General RadioTelephone (with radar endorsement) in 1985.
>
> Got my Extra Class Amateur license in 1979, back when you still had to
> actually copy code at 20 WPM.
>
> Being an old school guy, I have to admit a certain bias against General
> RT holders and even the new codeless ham guys. I've seen many General RT
> holders who couldn't tune a broadcast radio to a local station let alone
> work on a genuine 2-way radio.
>
> So sue me.. I'm only human :-)
>
> Ken
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