[SOC] Question on Extra Exam

[Tom McCulloch]

Hi Merlin -- Yea, I see that...:))

I failed first grade and Bob Smith is as far as I ever got on Charts....hi

73
de Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Merlin Williams" <merlin at mewai.com>
To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Question on Extra Exam


> Tom,
>
> First of all you should know better, than to ask any thing of meaning
> and importance at this location.
>
> Are you asking about the Smith Chart, which requires a degree in
> electrical engineering to really understand, or the other two connect
> the dot charts, which you should have learned how to do by the end of
> the first grade?
>
> The charts were not there when I took the extra examine, although I had
> to know CW.
>
> My latest ARRL Handbook, 1960 Edition, do not help.
>
> Merlin
> KD0V
>
> Tom McCulloch wrote:
>>     Hoping it doesn't get me kicked of SOC, I am studying for the Extra
>> exam.  I am having a real problem understanding section E5 of the 
>> question
>> pool (so I guess I can stay as a SOC, after all).  This the section 
>> called
>> "Electrical Principles" and it deals with resonance, phases, inductors,
>> capacitors and all sorts of nasty stuff.  And the graphs?? They make
>> absolutely no sense to me!
>>
>>     I'm using the ARRL "Extra Class License Manual" to study and it seem
>> like a pretty good book, but I just don't get this section.  Can anyone 
>> here
>> point me to a resource that may be more simplistically written and 
>> oriented
>> to a SOC, type like myself.
>>
>>     Thanks for any info you might provide.
>>
>> Tom
>> WB2QDG
>>
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