"TCS" wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:33:13 -0500, Charles Schuler
wrote:


I've noticed quite a few very 'non-technical' questions coming from
hams
lately. What does it take to pass the technical part of the lisence
test
these days? Way back when I was a ham, any novice could have answered
stuff
like this....

I'm not so sure. A friend of mine owned a company and he personally
hired
the electrical engineers. He used to ask them to draw a simple circuit
using an op-amp to give a voltage gain of ten. He told me that very few
of
the graduate EEs from respected colleges and universities could draw the
circuit or answer the question in any form.

bull****.

That's first semester electrical design.


Doesn't mean they still remember how to do it. It's amazing some of the
people who come in for interviews, and of how little relevance what's on
their resume is.