I still love my Advanced Class license...been there since Aug 1974 😳 Thought about upgrading to Extra a few times but I wouldn't gain that much...and a 1x2 call with my initials would not look good on my license plates (N, K or W 5CB?? Nope.... maybe my three W5CWB but I can get that now..and I'm trustee of W5APX soooo)
Chris On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 8:31 PM Chris Medlin via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > Good evening Marc. > Back in the day, there was novice, technician, general, advanced, and > extra. Advanced was the hardest test. It was a very hard test. Because > Advanced was, well, advanced, you didnt need to pass more code. You had the > 13 wpm for the general and since extra was 20wpm code, the extra written > was a little easier. > When they dropped the code requirement, they combined the advanced and > extra, so the extra test got much harder. > In the scheme of things, its always been understood that your electronics > knowledge would have to increase as you progress through the license > classes. > If youve taken the extra test 22 times, your approach is flawed. > Licensing isnt a race. Ive got two friends who were licensed as Novices > (back during the code requirement) and are still hams today and have no > desire to upgrade to Tech. They have plenty of enjoyment hanging out doing > cw. > And if you are a general class and you aren’t continuing to increase your > electronics knowledge or cant master the concepts required for the extra, > you can still have plenty of enjoyment on hf. Theres plenty of spectrum > alotted for the general class. Ham radio offers many things to everyone. > The race to Extra shouldnt feel like a requirement. > > Hope this helps. > Welcome to the hobby! > 73 > Chris > AC5CM > > Typos brought to you by iPhone > > > On Mar 20, 2023, at 15:21, M Reiter via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > > > >  > > 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 > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > > > BVARC mailing list > > BVARC@bvarc.org > > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ >
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