Jim: This an almost carbon copy of my situation!
When I first took the Extra in the early 1950s, it was all essay questions and freehand schematic drawings. And, of course, the CW. (I thought it was 21 words per minute?) I lost my ticket due to work and family, but started crawling back up the ladder in the 1980s. I took the Extra about ten years ago and thought most of the questions were strange, to say the least. I made arrangements with the local club to take the Extra test on a certain date and told myself that I'd study intensly for two weeks before the test. Two weeks before the test my mother died. I was taking care of things 200 miles away from home for most of the two week period. I'd made the arrangements to take the test, so I did. I took the test and passed, without studying! Granted, I didn't get the score I would have liked, but 85% was passing. 73, Barrie, W7ALW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Tonne" <to...@comcast.net> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class License > Regarding the Extra exam, I found it more of an > IQ test than a meaningful ham radio test. Some > of the questions were of dubious value in my > opinion in determining how well versed you were > about amateur radio. > > I got my first Extra in 1953 when the questions > seems to be meaningful and I had to copy 20 WPM > of code groups. Then I did an incredibly stupid > thing: I let it run out. The second time around was > perhaps 10 years or so ago and it was at that time > that the test seemed so weird to me. > > - Jim W4ENE > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/amradio@mailman.qth.net/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to amradio-requ...@mailman.qth.net with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
