I just passed my Extra Amateur (Element 4) this past Saturday (online testing),
but I took a Zoom Classtaught by Roland Anders (K3RA) and Tom Christovich
(K3YA), I studied with the ARRL Extra License
Manual, plus I brushed up a little from my Introductory Linear Circuits class I
took in college for myundergraduate. I still have my college textbooks in my
library.
And although I aced the General, I only got 42 out of 50 on my Extra. But it's
over and done.
22 tries at $15 each, you could have gotten yourself a nice HT!
Congratulations, nonetheless! And good luck chasing those Aussies on 15 or 20
mts... Or maybe amoon bounce. The possibilities are endless!
Jorge A. Gutiérrez - NØJGS+1.713.550.4788
On Monday, March 20, 2023 at 04:28:20 PM CDT, John Denison via BVARC
<bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
When I decided to get my first ham license, I took the online sample
tests repeatedly until I was confident that I would pass at the testing
session. I used the same method for my General class license, but both
times I had read ARRL books on the respective licenses so that I would
know what the material is and what the questions were referring to.
You can do what you stated you wanted to do with a General class
license, but an Extra class license gives you not only more spectrum to
use, but spectrum that the other classes can't use. Being a ham isn't
only about communicating or making contacts across the globe, but among
other things, we advance the art and contribute to developing new ideas
in the communications field. We have to be technically minded in order
to do that. I have yet to attempt the Extra class license test, but it
is a goal of mine for the future.
73
John Denison
KD5YOU
On 3/20/2023 3:20 PM, M Reiter via BVARC 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
>
>
>
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