Also if you get the latest "Now you're talking" http://www.amazon.com/Youre-Talking-Amateur-License-Edition/dp/0872598810/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391574277&sr=8-1&keywords=now+your+talkingand study the questions in the back (they are the exact questions on the test) you can pass pretty easy.
Much fun, worth doing, and it is an old hobby making a comeback. 73, Craig On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:19 PM, DaveH <[email protected]> wrote: > The Whatcom Emergency Communications Group does training and testing every > other month. > > http://www.wecg.org/ > > There is a free self-paced test available at QRZ.COM > > http://www.qrz.com/hamtest/ > > The exam is multiple choice and the test above uses the actual questions > that are used for the examination so it is a simple matter of rote > memorization. Key point -- the answers are the same but the position of the > answers will be changed -- if (a) is the correct answer on the web, (c) > might be its position on the paper exam. > > Radios are available for under $100 A really nice setup (optional larger > antenna, a couple of extra batteries, programming software and cable and > decent handheld mic/speaker) is under $200. > > Dave KF7VNY > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 17:55 > > To: LinuxFest Northwest Discussion > > Subject: [Fest-list] ham radios for event communication > > > > > > At a BLUG planning meeting this past summer, I brought a handheld ham > > radio and floated the idea that such radios would be helpful in > > coordinating things during LinuxFest NW. Has anyone been doing any > > thinking along these lines? > > > > I encourage everyone with even a smidgen of interest in radio > > to get their > > license. > > > > -- > > David Griffith > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > Fest-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fest-list > > _______________________________________________ > Fest-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fest-list > -- "Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it." ~ John Adams
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