[SBE] Certification

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 01:01 am, Carl Sundberg wrote:


>  When and where will it all end? Well it won't. Someday we'll be praying for 

>  the good old days when gas was only $5 a gallon and when we didn't need a 

>  PE certification to change the cord to our wireless phone box. Get used to 

>  it gang. If there is money to be made certifying people, someone will find 

>  a way to require us all to suck up to someone else who has their hand in 

>  the palm up mode.     


 It gets worse. Was it Minnesota ?
 Someplace it is rumored that I did a studio project, the local "law" was that
 you could not plug an RJ-11 without a local "low voltage" certification in a
 commercial building.
 Whether or not you could legally connect your own telephone at home
 was ambiguous.
 To make matters worse, to get the cert, you had to go, in person, to
 city hall, and get an application, ( local issued ID required ) which you
 then had to fill out and MAIL in. They would then MAIL ( local only ) your 
 appointment card, when you would then show up in person with $300
 to take the test. They would then MAIL you the test results, and you could
 then show up IN PERSON again, to pick up your cert. THEN you would be
 allowed to plug in an extension telephone, connect 8451, plug in an RJ-45,
 connect the audio to a cart machine, plug in a mini-plug to a sound card, etc.

 How did we ( allegedly ) build the studios under such communistic protectionist "law" ?
 Not so simple. My check ( allegedly ) came from a different corporation, with a common
 parent corporation, for a nonexistent project in another state. On it goes.
 We ( allegedly ) spent time, money, effort to establish plausible deniability.
 We ( allegedly ) knowingly, and willingly, violated local law in order to get the job done.
 There were no local card carrying contractors available.
 It's also alleged that there were no, none, zip, zero, nada, local folks used
 what so ever, lest someone spill the beans while the thing was being built.

 In another alleged build, I allegedly spent days explaining to a local electrician
 who did have the required LOCAL journeyman card how he had crimped
 molex, soldered XLR's, etc. etc. etc. so he could BS the local inspector well
 enough to get by.

 Probably, it'll get worse, as did prohibition in the 20's, and with similar result.
 One of the requirements for employment will become that one will willingly,
 knowingly, violate the "law" with predictable results.

 Too much certification can be worse than none at all. Much worse.
 Just my opinion............

 Now, here's a question........
 Depending on the state of tune at the moment, will one need a low voltage, or
 a high voltage cert to adjust a phasor or ATU ?

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