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MTS2000des said:
More name calling from the one who gets butt hurt when they're weakness is exposed. There you have it folks. This is why we don't move forward, and attitudes from the high and mighty who don't want to consider that things might be going a direction they can't handle because they DON'T KNOW. Rather than develop those skill sets, this what they degenerate to. This is why the "I do only RF crowd" fail interviews. Miserably. And they know, their future is limited as their lifespan. Maybe if they'd take a course or two or three on LTE rather than posting negative crap on forums, they would get that skill set and remain relevant to the future. There are those that adapt, learn and grow. Those that insist on living in the past get left there when everyone else moves on.
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Nobody is living in the past. Go ask any radio shop what their biggest hurdle is and 90 percent will probably say competent radio techs. It isn't on the networking end. Making things work on the RF side is step number 1 and it's becoming increasingly difficult. It's the foundation to any radio system, and without it the system simply cannot function at all. I've retired twice, and I STILL work for a radio shop almost full time just getting sh** to work properly. The RF world is not "plug it in and it should work" type of scenario. That's why half of systems don't work worth of beans to begin with.

MTS2000des said:
by the same logic, as most modern LMR systems (especially trunking) are 90 percent IP, you need ALL the appropriate skill sets to manage the network. You can have the best tuned combiner/duplexers/multi-couplers but if the network is unusable because some "mouth breather" doesn't know how to fleet map, properly provision and configure a console, map talk groups to an IP logging recorder, configure a HD CCGW to bring in other resources, that "finely tuned" radio system will the functional equivalent to a lawnmower with no blades.
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I deal with modern LMR systems daily. I can tell you exactly what the weaknesses are if you'd like to start a thread on that. No problem. It's the IT guys trying to be radio techs that are forcing me not to retire. I'll retire when I'm dead at this rate.

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BTW, you don't need to be an AH to be good at something. and anytime you want to set me loose with a tracking gen and set of cans, I'll prove you wrong. Bad breath can really make someone take their car to another mechanic, even if the guy is an old pro. Time for a swig or two of Listerine 12db.
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Well that's good. I'll send you up to the prudential building in Boston and let you figure out some RF issues there to start.
 
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