Hi, first off, just want to let you know, I took an electronic course in 97-99 and it's fairly math oriented (formula, binary, etc).. As long as you can do 5a+2b=6c, you'll be ok! :
Again, I DIDN'T do POET, just an electronic course, but I guess it's fairly the same thing.. Electronic for the army or for the civilian world stay electronics....
2nd thing is, I made a little document for myself of what people replied to some of my and other's posts. If it doesn't help you, maybe it will help someone else!
LCIS tech (Land Communications and Information Systems) tech - we repair / maintain any communications equipment that the army uses, including radios (tactical and commercial), telephone systems (phones, switches, indoor wiring), radar, satellite equipment (dishes, receivers, transmitters), computers and network systems (switches, routers, wiring, PC's, laptops) and cyrptographic equipment. Working evironment can vary - as a new tech, you can be expected to be posted to a brigade, where the work will be done in a shop in garrison, 9-5, and in the back of a truck during exercises and operations. (0-dark hundred to 0-dark hundred). If you are posted to a static position (non-operational), the job is mostly 9-5 (or 0730-1600 here) with the odd job outside those hours.
From my experience, the LCIS work on the electronics and communciations systems not found within land vehicals. On base, they repair service and maintain HF, VHF, UFH, X-band based communication systems usually this is hand-held or base station transceivers. They set-up and maintain satellite earth stations, computer networks, datacom systems, to the more mundane paging, order wires, intercom and telephone systems. In the field, they'd be setting up satellite earth stations, radio systems, and the general electronics techs on a case by case basis.
Typically an LCIS tech will deal with the TCCCS radios and TE (Terminal Equipment - Switchboards, phones etc.) to start with. After that, again depending where you are posted you will then get the option of going on different courses like satellite communications, UNIX courses, network admin courses and many others.
Land Communication and Information Systems Technicians (LCIS TECHs) repair and maintain all types of Army communications and information systems. These include: communications equipment and radio systems, radio relay systems, radar systems, ground surveillance and miscellaneous radiation detection and associated equipment, and cryptographic equipment. LCIS TECHs also maintain strategic, long range radio communications systems, portable satellite communications systems, microwave systems, personal computers and area networks, and ground telecommunications systems.
Their primary technical functions are the following:
perform system restoration, preventive and corrective maintenance, inspections, modifications, installations and acceptance checks, as well as repair and overhaul;
perform installations as well as preventive and corrective maintenance on a wide range of radio, radar, switching, data processing, cryptographic, terminal, audio and video equipment;
install and operate test and diagnostic equipment to determine the general condition of systems; and
repair and calibrate radiation detection equipment.
Again, I DIDN'T do POET, just an electronic course, but I guess it's fairly the same thing.. Electronic for the army or for the civilian world stay electronics....2nd thing is, I made a little document for myself of what people replied to some of my and other's posts. If it doesn't help you, maybe it will help someone else!
LCIS tech (Land Communications and Information Systems) tech - we repair / maintain any communications equipment that the army uses, including radios (tactical and commercial), telephone systems (phones, switches, indoor wiring), radar, satellite equipment (dishes, receivers, transmitters), computers and network systems (switches, routers, wiring, PC's, laptops) and cyrptographic equipment. Working evironment can vary - as a new tech, you can be expected to be posted to a brigade, where the work will be done in a shop in garrison, 9-5, and in the back of a truck during exercises and operations. (0-dark hundred to 0-dark hundred). If you are posted to a static position (non-operational), the job is mostly 9-5 (or 0730-1600 here) with the odd job outside those hours.
From my experience, the LCIS work on the electronics and communciations systems not found within land vehicals. On base, they repair service and maintain HF, VHF, UFH, X-band based communication systems usually this is hand-held or base station transceivers. They set-up and maintain satellite earth stations, computer networks, datacom systems, to the more mundane paging, order wires, intercom and telephone systems. In the field, they'd be setting up satellite earth stations, radio systems, and the general electronics techs on a case by case basis.
Typically an LCIS tech will deal with the TCCCS radios and TE (Terminal Equipment - Switchboards, phones etc.) to start with. After that, again depending where you are posted you will then get the option of going on different courses like satellite communications, UNIX courses, network admin courses and many others.
Land Communication and Information Systems Technicians (LCIS TECHs) repair and maintain all types of Army communications and information systems. These include: communications equipment and radio systems, radio relay systems, radar systems, ground surveillance and miscellaneous radiation detection and associated equipment, and cryptographic equipment. LCIS TECHs also maintain strategic, long range radio communications systems, portable satellite communications systems, microwave systems, personal computers and area networks, and ground telecommunications systems.
Their primary technical functions are the following:
perform system restoration, preventive and corrective maintenance, inspections, modifications, installations and acceptance checks, as well as repair and overhaul;
perform installations as well as preventive and corrective maintenance on a wide range of radio, radar, switching, data processing, cryptographic, terminal, audio and video equipment;
install and operate test and diagnostic equipment to determine the general condition of systems; and
repair and calibrate radiation detection equipment.
