[AMRadio] Average OP Age was BA Tr FS
Jim Wilhite
w5jo at brightok.net
Mon Jul 23 15:09:38 EDT 2007
You are right Brett. It seems as if the test is now geared
to operating rather than understanding the basics of
electronics. Not much more than recognizing a symbol on a
diagram.
Jim/W5JO
> All my homebrew stuff uses radio shack meters
> and home made shunts.
>
> To calibrate them, I use a variac and a dmm and get the
> meters to read the same up to 1000 volts (what the DMM
> does).
>
>
> I been looking at the extra class test, I can homebrew a
> station and
> an antenna, but cant pass that test, lots of stuff about
> modes I never
> heard of, digital stuff, satellite stuff, vhf stuff, etc.
>
> YUK!
>
>
> Brett
> N2DTS
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