The other potential problem would be where the test centers are located. I went to the site, but didn't find site locations. Maybe you get to a location after you keep drilling down on a particular test, but I only went a few screens in.
Anyway, the VE's are all over the place. The test centers could involve considerable drive time - not a good thing when you are trying to encourage someone to get a license. Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "lenaw12" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:54 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: OT: Licensing Exam Info > Be careful what you wish for...a Ham license has "no value" so the VE's > can only charge their "actual expenses" for administering the test...here > in the east it is around $15...ProMetric probably wouldn't let you walk in > the door for $15. > > The FCC is no longer in the "exam business" so it doesn't want to spend > any money developing tests, keeping them current, administering them or > "certifying" the testers...Ham Radio is a "self policed" holder of > valuable spectrum...by administering their own exams, hams are showing the > responsibility exists to have the privilege of holding RF spectrum. > > I just went to the ProMetric site > http://www.register.prometric.com/Index.asp > > and ran through some of the pricing, the Microsoft tests are $60 and the > SunSystems are $500 > > I appreciate our VE's (and they flunked me on my last unstudied, dry run > at Extra) > > LW > > --- In [email protected], Nate Duehr <n...@...> wrote: >> >> Side-comment: As a pilot and IT person, I've been taking tests for both >> at professional testing locations like ProMetric now for at least a >> decade. >> >> With the removal of the Code, I've always wondered why the FCC hasn't >> gone the way the FAA did, and dropped the need for the VE's altogether. >> Just send people to the various "testing centers" around the world, and >> be done with it. >> >> Even most of my other volunteer organizations have moved the majority of >> their testing online (to their own websites, but those are open-book >> tests... so no need to have a test proctor, like the professional testing >> facilities have, and video cameras recording you). >> >> -- >> Nate Duehr >> n...@... >> >> facebook.com/denverpilot >> twitter.com/denverpilot
