Michal Skřivánek has been working for the Hradec Králové Transport Company since December 1990. He started his first job here when he trained as an electrician directly for the company and further extended his education by studying electronics for the power industry. He started his professional career in the local trolleybus hall P1.

His workplace is the radio workshop

The workplace where he now works with a colleague is the radio workshop. Although this name may seem a bit archaic nowadays, according to Michal Skřivánek it still describes well a large part of his job, which is repair and maintenance of radio stations. „Among other things, we take care of the hardware of radios and everything related to them that is installed in public transport vehicles. The biggest part of our job is taking care of the check-in system. Everything is very interconnected nowadays, data flows from one device to another. That's the grist of our work now, otherwise we deal with general electronics. Of course, with new technologies, some of our work is decreasing, but others are increasing,“ he commented on the unstoppable development.

In the past, this section of the transport workshops did, for example, a large number of renovation works of the fluorescent inverter type. These are gradually being replaced by more reliable LED tubes. The timers on the doors of public transport vehicles also require frequent repairs. The way it used to work was that the driver would flick a switch in the cab, a signal would sound at the door, it would close by itself and the driver would not have to pay attention to it. At the next stop he pulled the button and the door opened again. The passengers got on and the whole process repeated.

„This method of operating the door was abandoned over time. New demands have emerged, especially for air conditioning installations. It was then logically desirable not to ventilate unnecessarily and not to open all the doors when not needed. Therefore, a more modern, so-called demand system was introduced, where the driver simply arranges for the doors to be opened and the passengers then open the doors they wish to use to board or alight themselves. The rest of the car is not ventilated unnecessarily,“ he said of the development of the control.

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