ARRL practice test are Notorious for X&Y type answers. I have been buying, repairing and selling ham radio equipment for over 20 years, and still have not become a “Ham Radio, Amateur radio operator” by choice. I even received some door prizes at a Hamfest, so I was able to purchase ARRL books but still haven’t bothered to get my license. But I do listen and learn on the airwaves. To those people who already have their license and have some recent spare material to loan Jeff, I would suggest bringing them to him. Just my two pennies worth. Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Sep 19, 2024, at 1:18 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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.
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