Spacer as Soldier

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Electronics Op (Comm). Compensating for natural interference, extending range, figuring out foreign tactical equipment, hailing on a specific frequency band, keying in manual code (like Morse), operating new or classified systems, patching (phone to radio, intercom to radio, radio to shipboard PA, etc.), penetrating jamming, relaying comms between two other stations, using comms as sensors (e.g., scanning a broad frequency range), and so on.[/INDENT]

This still seems super weird to me. Modern TL8 shipboard radios on the trawler where I worked have a simple digital display to select radio frequency. I may not know anything about which one to select to cut through jamming or how to follow along a pre-arranged schedule of frequency hopping*, but even without any skill, I can look up a frequency on the table next to it and enter the number of it.

*In case the equipment doesn't do that automatically.