[TenTec] Advanced test - was: CW on 60M

[Hsu, Aaron]

Be thankful you missed the Advanced test - it was the toughest of the 5 class "era".  Mostly electronics theory with a spattering of radio operation and rules.  The day I took the test, I left my calculator at home and had to borrow a "basic" calc.  Luckily, it's a multiple choice exam and usually only one or two answers look "logical".  I barely skirted by!

The Extra exam was a breeze compared to Advanced, but that 20wpm code was a bear!  Again, I just barely skirted by, but was I glad I did!  The code practice I put in during the 5 years between my Advanced and Extra ticket finally had some value - I passed the code test just 2 days before the FCC dropped the 20wpm requirement for Extra.  Yes, I didn't have to do it, but I had justify all that time I spent working on it, hi.

Don't worry about the question pool.  The FCC often eliminates questions from the pool if they find it questionable, vague, or out-of-date.  They just instruct the VEC's to remove that question from the tests until the next rev of the pool (every 3 years?).

73,

  - Aaron Hsu, NN6O (ex-KD6DAE)
    {nn6o}@arrl.net
    {athsu}@unistudios.com
    No-QRO Int'l #1,000,006
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cliff [mailto:csegar at mindspring.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 11:41 AM

This thought is very currious. Since I am one of the newer licensed hams
(even tho I first studied code from an Ameco record!), all the question
pools I have gone thru have a question to the affect of "what mode is legal
anywhere?" and the answer is CW. The only exam I didn't take was the
Advanced but that question was on the Novice, Tech, General and the Extra
test. Is the QPC going to have to modify all these to ask what mode is
legal anywhere EXCEPT 60m? It would be very interesting to know the thought
process behind the SSB only and channelization. Sure seems strange to me!

Cliff