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Westwind
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2002 - 7:21 pm: | 
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I live in the Nashville,TN. area and I was wondering if anyone knew of a place that teaches C.B. repair in my area?Or is there a home study course that I can apply to?For all you techs out there-Help a fellow DX'er get on the right track to learning a new hobby/trade.How do I study for the tech exam and where can I learn?You can e-mail me if you like........ |
Tech181
| | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2002 - 12:15 am: |
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Westwind,
Ask questions, lot's of them. Buy books. Lou Franklin books are excellent on the subject of CB. Look over and study the question pools for the ham exams. Lot's of good info there, including the basics. Search the web. You can learn alot on your own. Good radio techs are hard to come by.
I was reading an article in a trade magazine at work that stated there is a crap load of computer technicians but two-way and land mobile radio techs are harder to come by.
Steve
Tech181
Tech181@copperelectronics.com |
ChillyDog
| | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2002 - 9:48 am: |
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Westwind,
I concur with Tech181's suggestions. In particular, Lou Franklin's book, "Understanding and Repairing CB Radios" is an excellent reference.
Today, it is unfortunate that tech level training for RF is hard to find; there is a lot of emphesis on computer technology but almost none for radio.
A local community college course on basic electronics may help a lot, but you'll still have to do a lot of work on your own to learn radio.
If you do find a CB shop for apprentice training make sure that they have some basic equipment: an oscilloscope with adequate bandwidth, a calibrated frequency meter and a good signal generator, if you're lucky they'll have a spectrum analyzer. (In fact, this recommendation applies for finding a shop for doing _any_ work; a shop that doesn't even have an o'scope is not a shop ...)
Stick with it and you'll get there!
Bob |
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