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Level 6
Credits 20
Purpose This unit standard is for people who currently are, or will be developing and testing radio telecommunications products, systems and procedures.
People assessed as competent in this unit standard are able to translate radio telecommunications products, systems or procedural concepts into reality; and test and analyse results.
Subfield Telecommunications
Domain
Status
Status date
Date version published
Telecommunications - Provide Goods and Services
Registered
28 July 1995
25 January 2008
Planned review date
Entry information
31 December 2012
Open.
Accreditation Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry and teaching professional in the same field from another provider.
Standard setting body (SSB) ElectroTechnology Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0003
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Special notes
1 Critical underpinning skills and knowledge
Knowledge and skills to identify and evaluate new telecommunications technologies, systems, or procedures will assist those seeking credits in this unit standard. Such skill may be evidenced by the holding of credit in Unit 4895, Identify and evaluate new telecommunications technologies, systems, or procedures.
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2 General Range
Radio telecommunications prototypes: those radio products and services relating to radio communication systems including transmission equipment, cabling, studios, broadcast radio and transmitters, customer premise equipment, radar, direction finding, jamming.
Element 1
Develop radio telecommunication prototypes.
Performance criteria
1.1
Customer requirements for radio telecommunications products, systems, or procedures are identified and agreed prior to prototype development and are accurate and complete.
1.2
Developed specifications for prototypes are identified prior to prototype development, are accurate and complete, and agreed with customers.
Range specifications – test requirements and qualification test plan; customers
– internal, external.
1.3
Functional requirements of prototypes are identified prior to prototype development.
Range partition protocols, component durability under accidental abuse, anticipated future requirements.
1.4
Sensitivity analysis of prototype components is completed, and only reliable components are used in the development of radio telecommunications prototypes.
1.5
Constraints to prototype performance are identified, and contingencies developed to optimise specified performance.
Range constraints – physical construction, cost per unit, environmental considerations: temperature, location, hazards, power requirements, packaging, propagation path predictions.
1.6
Prototypes are developed within budget, by the agreed time, and comply with industry and organisational standards.
Range standards – internal policies and procedures, international telegraph and telephone consultative committee, frequency, federal communication commission, international radio consultative committee.
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1.7
Regular progress reports on prototype development are documented and disseminated to authorised parties.
Range authorised parties
– management, customers, finance, marketing or any other persons with authorisation to have access to the information.
1.8
Draft documentation on prototype development is recorded, filed in a secure place, and is available to authorised users.
Element 2
Range user manuals, reports, partitioning.
Test radio telecommunications prototypes.
Performance criteria
2.1
Test equipment selected is calibrated, operates within specified parameters, and is fit for purpose.
2.2
2.3
Test equipment is used in accordance with user and manufacturer procedures.
Tests on radio telecommunications prototypes are conducted within the agreed time and budget, and comply with agreed test plan and specifications.
2.4
2.5
Prototypes are tested to maximum operating limits.
External factors that could impact test integrity are noted, and safety of personnel and surrounding environment is maintained at all times during testing.
Range external factors – power supplies, EMP (electro magnetic pulse),
EMR (electro magnetic resonance), radiation, RF (radio frequency fields), radio path propagation variables; surrounding environment
– integrity of support systems, physical, plant, equipment.
2.6
Radio telecommunication prototypes perform to the identified and agreed specification.
2.7
Test results are documented in the agreed format and disseminated to authorised personnel promptly.
Range authorised personnel
– customers, designers, management, marketing, finance.
2.8
Documented test results are filed in a secure place, by the agreed time, and are available to authorised personnel.
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Element 3
Analyse radio telecommunications prototype test results.
Performance criteria
3.1
Radio telecommunications prototype test results are accurate, relevant, and complete.
3.2
Radio telecommunications prototype test results are analysed for compliance with agreed test specification and qualification test plan by the agreed time.
3.3
Resulting decisions and recommendations made from test analysis are supported by valid evidence and reasoned argument.
3.4
Identified improvements in test procedures are documented and given to authorised personnel for action.
Range authorised personnel – test designers, customers, management, prototype designers.
3.5
Identified improvements in prototype design are documented and given to relevant authorised personnel promptly.
Range relevant authorised personnel – sponsors, management.
3.6
Test analysis is documented in the agreed format and disseminated to authorised personnel promptly.
3.7
Test analysis is filed in a secure environment and is available to authorised personnel.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
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Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the ElectroTechnology Industry Training Organisation reviewcomments@etito.co.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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