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V78B Broadcast Engineering Technician

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

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Overview

A Broadcast Engineering Technician operates and maintains broadcast control, distribution, redistribution, and production subsystems. The technician installs and integrates broadcast components and performs organizational, intermediate, and depot level maintenance on shipboard SITE systems and commercial radio, television, satellite, and transmission equipment.

Core Skills

  • Broadcast equipment maintenance through depot level
  • Broadcast component integration and installation
  • Signal distribution and redistribution operations

Civilian Career Paths

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Broadcast Technicians

Maintaining radio, television, satellite, and transmission equipment and operating broadcast control subsystems directly overlaps with station equipment support and broadcast operations.

How to prepare: Practice a station monitoring workflow that records transmitter readings, checks incoming and outgoing signal quality, and documents equipment problems.

What the civilian work involves
  • Report equipment problems, ensure that repairs are made, and make emergency repairs to equipment when necessary and possible.
  • Monitor and log transmitter readings.
  • Monitor strength, clarity, and reliability of incoming and outgoing signals, and adjust equipment as necessary to maintain quality broadcasts.

Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers

Installing integrated broadcast components and maintaining radio and television equipment transfers directly to audiovisual installation and repair.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on audiovisual troubleshooting exercise using test instruments to locate a circuit or component fault and verify the repair.

What the civilian work involves
  • Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.
  • Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Audio calibration software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V78B

    [1] NEC entry "V78B - Broadcast Engineering Technician"; cached text line 15273; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Broadcast equipment maintenance through depot level, Broadcast component integration and installation, Signal distribution and redistribution operations, Broadcast Technicians (O*NET 27-4012.00), Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers (O*NET 49-2097.00)

  2. O*NET: Broadcast Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Broadcast Technicians (O*NET 27-4012.00)

  3. O*NET: Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers (O*NET 49-2097.00)

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