[CW] One Day to Extra Class

[Bruce Shaw AG4NY]

I would like to know how much studying had been done prior to the class.  If
this was a 'review session' vs 'one-day Extra class', I would have to
support it.  I studied on my own for several months prior to taking my extra
class test and then studied about 8-10 hours per day for the last three days
before the test.  I would have welcomed a 'review session'.  Not sure about
learning in all in one day...............
73,
Bruce Shaw
ag4ny
Gibsonville NC
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Subject: [CW] One Day to Extra Class


> I am shocked at the following report from the ARRL!
> I  am sending this to a fairly wide distribution with this
> question:  is this where Amateur Radio really wants
> to be going?  Or do you think the following is just
> great and wonderful??
>
> From today's ARRL Letter:
>
> "New York's Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club--LIMARC
> --reports its first "one-day Extra" licensing upgrade class was
> such a success that it's scheduled additional sessions for later
> this spring. LIMARC recently attracted two dozen students to its
> first Extra class license study short course, and nearly all who
> attended walked away with their Extra tickets.
>
> "....the session involves seven hours of
> intensive study. Five instructors taught the nine Extra examination
> subelements, which include FCC rules, operating procedures, radio
> propagation, Amateur Radio practices, electrical principles, circuit
> components, practical circuits and antennas and feedlines.
>
> When the session ended, 20 of the 24 applicants had passed
> Element 4. "
>
> All in  a "one-day"  short course.
>
> Wow,  I am impressed.  Took me an entire semester in engineering
> school to learn how to solve all those impedance,  complex
> plane,  R+/- jX problems.  And 20 of these guys learned how
> to do those,  along with all that other stuff,  and STILL the same
> day took and passed the Extra license exam????
>
> Maybe what  those five instructors "taught" was the answers
> to the questions on the test to be given that day???  At least
> one enquiring mind would like to know!  I believe what is
> being reported is not possible and still be legitimate,  unless
> those 20 guys had way above genius IQ's.  Or maybe,  they
> all have "perfect recall" memories.
>
> Guess I was a real slow learning;  I was years getting the education,
> experience and UNDERSTANDING under my belt before I went
> for the Extra.  Oh yes,  also had to pass the 20 wpm CW test
> that same day,  but that isn't needed anymore.  Maybe it was
> getting to 20 wpm CW that took me all that time,  no,  don't
> think so.  Just took me awhile to learn/understand what the
> meaning of the stuff on the Extra Class license was all about.
>
> Yes,  what does the Extra Class license mean anymore??
>
> Just a bit disappointed,
>
> 73,  Jim KH7M
>
>
>
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