Well, this is required for a job  for a city that has a trunked radio
system.  Just a minute and I'll forward it to the list.  I donknow how
much all of you know about Motorola trunking, but has anyone taken this
kind of exam, and if so hos hard was it, and what did you use to stufd for
it with?





On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Rick Lewis wrote:

> Jeffrey,
> The general-class radio-telephone license is required for radio
> engineering jobs.
> It took the place of the first-class license in the 70s.
> I don't know how tough the General Class license is, but I suspect it
> would take a good deal of study.
> It's true that the FCC dumbed down the licenses required for broadcasting,
> and that most broadcasters need only possess a postcard license.
> In other words, no test, just fill out part of the card and send it in.
> But since the General Class is the one that engineers get, I'd expect one
> to need to know about towers, commercial transmitter design, antennas,
> directional patterns, etc.
> For some perspective, radio professionals used to go to school for the
> license that this replaced.
> --Rick
>