[BC] HAMS

[rameuser at tmo.blackberry.net]

I have always been very careful about hiring hams. There are some who 
are very skilled and talented. There are others who are and should be 
kept away from anything electrical.
At work we have an amateur radio society. We have our own repeater 
and a ham shack equipped to operate on almost every band HF through 23 cm.

All our equipment and antennae is installed around active broadcast 
systems. Some in our group are happy to have our internal engineering 
do the major installs (especially antenna systems) so they conform to 
the same engineering, mechanical and safety standards as the 
broadcast systems.

A few, though, want treat the installs the same as they would at home 
without regard to the other broadcast systems around. They feel you 
are not a real ham unless you do everything yourself. The latter is 
the type of Ham I would avoid hiring.

Don,t get me wrong, experimenting and home brewing is a very 
enjoyable part of the hobby. It is just you need to keep your dead 
bug proto board at home and not in the broadcast environment.  Some 
people get that while others do not.


-----Original Message-----
From: "Ronald J. Dot'o Sr." <ron.doto at comcast.net>

Broadcast seems to be more tolerant of hams for some reason.  My first
job out of the Air Force was at a Motorola Service Station repairing
two way units.  The owner told me that I wouldn't have been hired if I
had a ham license because they like to "play" too much on the bench.

Ron D