so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting, It took me 22 tries to pass the Extra Exam, I passed the tech on my first try and maybe third for general. If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA I would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is shoot the junk with someone in Australia and ask him or her how the weather is down there. for a small increase in frequencies I am having to learn a huge amount of electronic circuit theory. I feel this is just a bunch of old dudes sitting in a room saying to each other " Ya that question will baffle them" and not considering what questions might actually represent what is needed to operate a radio. seriously many operators do not know the phonetic alphabet or at least not the reason to use it. why do I need to know the reactance of a pi-l circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the surface of the moon in September in an odd solar year standing on one foot holding an antenna two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles moving underneath and I am left handed.
Marc KI5ZHO
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