Thanks!
@Patrick - Lots of headaches for the installer (especially if they did not follow standards,, and shot themselves in the foot). I do tech support so I'm the guy answers the questions on the other end of the phone and tells you you're doing it wrong.
@ekuhn - The NMEA cert's expire after 3 years unlike my old Comptia cert's. But next up is a GROL so I can independently sign off on transmitter (think handhelds up to and including big radio stations out in the Meadowlands) work on my own. Instead of bringing your radio to the shop (for like a MMSI reset on a Marine radio) so a licensed tech can do it I can do it out in the field as an example. Again my role is Tech Support but there have been times when I got pulled into the service center to do break/fix.
My office (the Seattle office is much larger, and has an Engineering section)