Category: learning
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Studying for months: Done Taking practice tests: Done Showing up for an actual test: Done Getting a 94% passing grade: Done Now I have an FCC-issued technician level license and a call sign: KK7JQN. Things people do with their ham radios: volunteer on emergency neighborhood response teams, provide communications at long-distance running events. Lots of…
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Eleven days out from taking the Amateur radio technician license test, the anxiety begins to set in. I’m fairly confident that I haven’t worked this hard to acquire knowledge outside of my comfort zone since college. Consistent daily review over the past three months of the various categories of information provided in the National Association…
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Amateur radio, AKA ham radio, never caught my interest. People fussing with complicated gadgets, raising odd antennas on the roof — someone in Antarctica talking to someone in Alaska — I mean, get a cell phone for heck’s sake. It might as well be magic for all I understood it. But I have this amazing…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 