On 9/19/24 12:16, David Riley via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Seriously, the max commitment it took from me was reading the ARRL's cheap Kindle guidebook on passing the exam (which was useful for the non-EE parts I wasn't as familiar with, like the traditional frequency offsets for repeaters, atmospheric effects, licensing technicalities, etc), and one hour on a weekend at the local radio club to actually take the test. You can do infinite practice tests online for free to see if you're ready. My free time is currently deeply in the red and I somehow managed it, so just about anyone can. :-)
Adding to this, not only use the online test but do try to understand the answers. I am dyslexic so I needed to understand the answer otherwise I'd get the X & Y type answers (similar but slightly different) mixed up. The understanding helped get around that. Some of the tests have very good explanations. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ