"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 18:46:04 -0800, "Dana" wrote:
Had I been in the Navy I would have been an AT, I am a former Marine who
went through the Avionics schools in Millington. BE&E, AVA, AFTA, and C7
1980 for the first term schools, and 88 for C7

Hi Dana,

Welcome to the group. To explain the alpha-numeric soup in my reply,
I was trained in Radar Systems before being cross-trained as an
instructor in RF Communication Systems (I then migrated into Precision
RF power measurement out to 12GHz).

The first class I taught was a two week course in the theory and
maintenance for the Collins R-390. I also taught the four week course
for the Collins URC-32 (very few seen in amateur application as
KWT-6). I taught other equipment as well, but they are even more
obscure to Hams. The Collins gear was like learning to drive and
maintain a Rolls-Royce.

I was an I level DECM tech.
I maintained the ALQ126, countermeasure system, the ALR 45, 50, and 67,
receivers and pulse analyzer, the USM 406, flight line test set, the box
that helped the O level guys sweep the lines and verify the ew equipment,
and the ALM 106 test bench, one of the first automatic test benches made,
and its replacement the USM 458. I was assigned to an A6 squadron, that
swapped out a few years before I got out to FA18's, but I was detailed out
to support them via the IMA shop.

I went into comm, when I got out, worked for a Motorola service shop
maintaing smartnet trunking systems, as well as conventional repeaters and
systems, then went over to Nextel as a cell site tech/performance engineer,
and then over to VoiceStream as a switch tech and performance engineer.


I see that guy has not answered yet about the temp, that thread is kind opf
amusing.


73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC