Subject: Marine electronics training
From: (Larry W4CSC)
Dennis, I'm very curious about your NMEA course.
How do they tell you to hook up non-compliant devices that have one
wire for NMEA output and one wire for NMEA input to the balanced NMEA
(+) and (-) network? Did anyone talk about why some manufacturers
cheap-out like this?
It was pretty much hardware oriented, wiring, cables, transducers, and
mounting. It was the installer certification. Interfacing data outputs wasn't
covered.
They have a technician certification test that covers what I'm interested in
learning but no course for it.
I agree that the best place to learn it is on the job but there are few
openings for entry level techs. Most companies want to hire someone with 5 yrs
experience that has done their mistakes and training at another company.
There was a vocational school that started a program down here, McFatter, but
they don't have the program anymore. It had an internship with a company as you
were training.
Dennis