[BVARC] Bike MS - MS 150 Bike Ride

2023-03-20 Thread Mike Hardwick via BVARC
Looking for a few good hams for NET control for the MS 150 Bike Ride. NET control is responsible for coordinating communications for event support that includes: Medical incidentsSuppliesTraffic issuesRider support (broken down, shuttling forward on course, lost, etc.)Tracking Vehicles (SAGS, Me

Re: [BVARC] BLT-109 N5EKO/B

2023-03-20 Thread terry leatherland via BVARC
Hi. I am speaking on HOA stealth antennas on April 13 in the in person meeting. Would you like to chime in on your Attic Folded dipole. ?  I can give you some air time. here is my presentation.   I had 62 people in the room at the hamfest.  so Im doing it again. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1

[BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread M Reiter via BVARC
so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting, It took me 22 tries to pass the Extra Exam, I passed the tech on my first try and maybe third for general. If I had wanted to be an electrical engineer and design antennas for NASA I would have gone to college for that. all I want to do is sh

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread Mike Knerr via BVARC
But you passed. You kept at it and kept trying until you passed. Good job, you might need some of the stuff you studied some day. 73 On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 3:21 PM M Reiter via BVARC wrote: > so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting, It took me 22 > tries to pass the Extra Exam, I

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread David Holden via BVARC
Marc, Very funny! Nice write-up. Also, don’t take this the wrong way but you are not good at taking tests. 😁 - David WJ9O > On Mar 20, 2023, at 3:21 PM, M Reiter via BVARC wrote: > >  > so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting, It took me 22 tries > to pass the Extra Exam, I

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread David Hold via BVARC
Look at exam questions from 20 years ago … their was much less electronics on the extra exam in 2000 Hate to say it but questions are published so just learn the answers …. I learned a few that way …. If questions had this set of numbers it was C-3200 Maybe I was just practiced enough online to

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread John Denison via BVARC
When I decided to get my first ham license, I took the online sample tests repeatedly until I was confident that I would pass at the testing session. I used the same method for my General class license, but both times I had read ARRL books on the respective licenses so that I would know what th

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread Michael Monsour via BVARC
I was a trained Electronic Technician . Yes the Extra exam is really something else. I crawled into the brain of the people that wrote that thing. In the case of formulas I just had to get the digits right and ignore the decimal point. I only had to really study stuff that I never was exposed to, p

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread Rick Hiller via BVARC
Hey, Marc, You stated. why do I need to know the reactance of a pi-l > circuit for 7.3 Mhz at 1800 somethings on the surface of the moon in > September in an odd solar year standing on one foot holding an antenna > two wavelengths from the surface if there are beetles moving > underneath and I

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread Chris Medlin via BVARC
Good evening Marc. Back in the day, there was novice, technician, general, advanced, and extra. Advanced was the hardest test. It was a very hard test. Because Advanced was, well, advanced, you didnt need to pass more code. You had the 13 wpm for the general and since extra was 20wpm code, the

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread Christopher Boone via BVARC
I still love my Advanced Class license...been there since Aug 1974 😳 Thought about upgrading to Extra a few times but I wouldn't gain that much...and a 1x2 call with my initials would not look good on my license plates (N, K or W 5CB?? Nope maybe my three W5CWB but I can get that now..and I

Re: [BVARC] BLT-109 N5EKO/B

2023-03-20 Thread David F. Reed via BVARC
Terry, I would love to, but I will be in Spain at the time… Thanks for the link to your presentation! 73 de W5SV, Dave > On Mar 20, 2023, at 14:02, terry leatherland via BVARC > wrote: > > Hi. I am speaking on HOA stealth antennas on April 13 in the in person > meeting. Would you like to

Re: [BVARC] extra exam.

2023-03-20 Thread Rod Lewis via BVARC
At least there is no longer a CW component to the test. I would have never gotten to general much less AE. 73 Lewis KC5RJL > On Mar 20, 2023, at 3:21 PM, M Reiter via BVARC wrote: > >  > so maybe this is for the VEC, maybe I am just venting, It took me 22 tries > to pass the Extra Exam,