187 - REPEATERMAN, TELEPHONE
[REPEATERMAN, TP]
Installs, adjusts, maintains, and repairs repeater and carrier equipment used in long lines wire communication systems.
Assembles and installs repeater and carrier units. Makes various types of tests such as measurements of transmission gains or losses and line resistances. Makes operating adjustments on repeater and carrier units to produce proper gains, levels, balances, and equalizations pertaining to amplified signals and the creation of additional communication channels. Locates, diagnoses, and clears trouble by making necessary repairs, improvisations, replacements, and substitutions.
Must have a general knowledge of the more common types of telephone circuits and be able to read and interpret circuit drawings. Must understand theory of repeater and carrier systems.
