..as I scanned through the forum..I thought this blog was for reading an outside meter and was poking fun,,,that is before I opened it and read what Eric said,,,( no, Spankee,,I am still sober and clean),,,I just dont read every blog...but after reading it,,I like what RDTroja said in the first couple of his reply's....and this training is nothing new...I had it in the Navy, and also as a House Tech at Farley...they had an 8 week training class and this was part of it,,they explained how each meter worked..and how to read them...now that was in the 80's and we didnt have but a few meters,,,this was before or during the time the RSO-50/5 was introduced,,and time of the multi-probed instruments had not come about..we are talking basic ....but we had problems with technicians being on the wrong scale...the late/great Perry Farnsworth going down in the transfer canal, to survey the transfer system, because it was the end of the year and he was one of the few with any dose left...and he the Manager,,,,the technician B had gotten an overexposure, because technician A had been on the wrong scale during the initial survey ( this was before the time of remote dosimetry, we were using pocket dosimeters)..and I have been at sites that test for this during the initial RP training,,,Limerick did this training....or excersize....I didn't read the entire blog, so if I covered what everybody else said,,or if the matter has gotten comepletely off subject,,feel free to scold me or delete this entry....red