[GreenKeys] Ham testing

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Gil,

Congrats!  Wow!  I have never heard of anyone going from nothing to Extra before.  

If you are going to get a new call sign do it now before you accumulate a lot of stuff with the FCC assigned one.

73,

Wayne
KB1FDW




-----Original Message-----
From: gil <gil at baudot.net>
To: aaa-greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 11:03 pm
Subject: [GreenKeys] Ham testing



Hey folks:


Well I have been running through practice exams on qrz.com for the technician test for the last few days, and I went through some of the general tests as well, just to see what was involved.  Since I didn't have a callsign, I had to enter something for the qrz website.  I put in GILTTY (and later realized it said "guilty").


Anyway, the tech practice didn't seem too bad, but the general had a lot of questions that were just sheer memorization (this freq, that bandwidth, this rule, etc).  I was bumming out that I would likely not remember all the details.  That, and the fact that I hadn't taken any test in 30 years made me a bit apprehensive.


But the tech test went pretty well -- got 100%.  I thought I'd try the general.  I got 100% on that one too.  The guy that graded my test said I should try the extra.  I told him that I had not practiced for it or even peeked at any questions.  A couple of grumpier VE guys didn't think that would be a good idea.  I took their disdain as a personal challenge and took the extra test anyway.


Sadly, I didn't do as well on the extra.  I only got 86% -- but they said that was good enough.  So I guess I am an extra now (or in a week or so when it becomes official).


A big thanks to everyone who has answered all my silly questions over the years, and helped my understand the ham side of things.


So how did you guys get a ...TTY callsign?  I want one too.



gil




gil smith
greenkeys moderator
gil at baudot.net



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