I've known of some private shops who wouldn't hire a ham because the owner thought hams did too good of a job. Those owners thought that hams took too much time trying to get the last tenth of a watt out of a transmitter or too much time tuning a receiver for that last one hundredth of a microvolt in receive sensitivity. Thus they spent too much time on a radio to be profitable.
I'd been a ham for about 12 years when I got my first LMR job (thou I had previously done LMR in the military). After I had moved on to a municipal shop, I selected only hams as new employees including a Motorola contract person. I also was given the back room portion of the interview at a CB shop once. The owner gave me a radio to repair that no one else had been able to. I don't remember its problem, but I had it going in about ten minutes. I got the job and the owner was not a ham. Harry, W0BL -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of AA8K73 GMail Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:00 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: if you have a commercial license When I got a job in the 1970's at a big LMR shop in Southern California, they told me they almost didn't hire me because I had an Amateur Radio License
