TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: amateur_radio
to: ROB SWINDELL
from: Daryl Stout
date: 2018-06-06 18:55:00
subject: ARRL Requests Expanded HF

Rob,

RS>No, the General Class test has more difficult questions when compared with t
RS>Technician's test. Here's a comparison:
RS>https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/which-exam.htm

  Two comments on that.

  First, when I took the General Class written exam, 5 months after the
FCC dropped the Morse Code requirement, I thought it was a piece of
cake...but I had been studying 2 hours a day for 2 weeks...and with
HamTestOnline (the URL you noted).

  Second, after going from Technician to General in 14 days, it only
took 13 days (studying 2 hours a day) to go from General to Amateur
Extra. I barely passed the Extra at the license exam session...but "a
win by 1 is as good as a win by 10".

  Doing both courses with HamTestOnline was the best money I ever spent
in amateur radio. Both John Cunningham, W1AI...and his wife, Christina,
KT1NA (who went from zero to Extra in one sitting), "know me" -- I guess
I have a reputation. 

  Plus, they offer the Amateur Extra course, a $35 value, FREE...if
you're a currently accredited Volunteer Examiner (with ARRL/VEC, W5YI
VEC, Laurel VEC, etc.), and have served at least 3 times in the last 12
months.

  Had it not been for deciding to becomine a Volunteer Examiner in
central Arkansas (several years ago, they were literally begging and
pleading for VE's at a local hamfest), I likely would've still been a
Technician Class licensee. In short, I upgraded not so much to operate
on HF...but to be a VE to help people get licensed, and upgraded. In
nearly 11 years of being a VE, I've done nearly 200 license exam
sessions.

Daryl, WX1DER
===
 þ OLX 1.53 þ When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
--- SBBSecho 3.04-Win32
* Origin: FIDONet: The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org (1:19/33)
SEEN-BY: 14/5 15/0 16/101 19/36 34/999 90/1 116/18 120/302 331 123/140 128/2
SEEN-BY: 153/7715 218/700 220/60 222/2 229/426 230/150 152 240/1120 250/1
SEEN-BY: 261/38 100 266/404 512 267/155 275/100 280/1027 282/1031 1056 291/1
SEEN-BY: 291/111 320/119 219 340/400 342/13 393/68 396/45 633/0 267 280 281
SEEN-BY: 633/410 412 640/384 712/620 848 770/1 801/161 189 2320/100 105
SEEN-BY: 3634/12 5020/1042
@PATH: 19/33 396/45 261/38 712/848 633/280 267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.