Amateur radio
| Highest | $3,000 / mo · United States |
|---|---|
| Experience | 0–1 yrs |
| Degree | Not required |
| First paycheck | 4 years of study |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
What does the day look like?
Work runs on 8-hour or 12-hour rotating shifts, covering nights, weekends, and holidays to maintain 24/7 monitoring over low Earth orbit (LEO) passes and geostationary orbital slots. Only 20% of your shift is the glamorous part people imagine: active satellite pass monitoring, telemetry tracking, and capturing signal downlinks.
The remaining 80% is routine technical upkeep and paperwork. About 40% of the day goes to equipment maintenance, calibrating antenna pedestals, checking waveguide feeds, tuning low-noise block downconverters (LNB), and repairing coax or fiber links. Another 30% is spent logging pass data, completing discrepancy reports, and writing shift handovers, while 10% is dedicated to network troubleshooting, verifying baseband demodulator settings, and resolving link degradations using Ettus USRP, HackRF, Keysight spectrum analyzers, Gpredict, and GNU Radio.
Where does this lead?
Next step up
What do you make of this job?