On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:13:22 -0800, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:

From the above, has there been a change in the CW requirement for
field staff? I know when I was offered a Field Engineer job they were
happy I would not have to study CW (I turned it down, the idea of paying
my moving and transfer expenses rankled me)

AFAIK the "technical agents" (used to be called engineers or
technicians) still have to qualify at a minimum of 20 wpm text and
16 wpm code groups. The non-technical agents (used to be called
Public Contact Specialists) and the clerical staff do not have to
be code-qualified although I know several who are code-qualified
from being licensed ham operators or once were monitoring station
technicians.

As far as relocation - when I hired on in 1967 they paid my
transportation and moving expenses cross-country. It may have
changed by the time that you were contacted.

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"Phil Kane" wrote:

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As far as relocation - when I hired on in 1967 they paid my
transportation and moving expenses cross-country. It may have
changed by the time that you were contacted.

Actually I would have had to waive the relocation required by
regulations, since I would have been a transfer from the Navy. I
declined to, they declined to finalize the offer.
I did have to laugh, the manager in question was elated over a budget
increase that amounted to the "pin" money my minor project had. But then
I was DoD under Regan and he wasn't

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On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 06:36:03 -0800, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:

I did have to laugh, the manager in question was elated over a budget
increase that amounted to the "pin" money my minor project had. But then
I was DoD under Regan and he wasn't

It's never been a secret that the agency did its work for many years
and up to today on a budget that was less than the paper towel and
toilet paper expenses of DoD. We bitched about that all the time.

Yet, both the FBI and the Secret Service came to us to teach them
how to use simple DF equipment because they were embarrased calling
us out all the time to find radio signals for them, and in that same
time frame, in competition with the military using feeds from the
same Wullenweber antennas as they were using, and string-and-weight
vectors over paper maps, our monitoring folks got fixes which were
several times tighter than the military folks using the whiz-bang
computer systems did.....

Sorry you missed all the fun.... ggg

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane