This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3661 from Monday the 15th of August 2022.
Today's show is entitled, HamRadio Testing.
It is part of the series HamRadio.
It is hosted by Archer 72 and is about six minutes long.
It carries a clean flag.
The summary is.
The study and testing for the ARR L Ham License.
Good morning.
This is Archer 72 and in this episode this is the morning of my HamRadio Test.
I am going originally it was just the technician but I am going for the general and
I am studying about 30 days on hamstudy.org.
Besides the website the only other source of study was the associated app that you could
buy for the 399.
And that would sink between the online test and your phone.
There is an app for both Android and the Apple phone.
I found the testing location on the ARR L website which in the United States is the
American Radio Relay League.
It is the website to take a technician and general practice test both Thursday and Friday
and got 35 out of 35 100% on both times.
This is my first time around so I don't know what to expect when I get to the Masonic
College is that is where it is located.
The person administering the test is a volunteer examiner coordinator for VEC.
I took the test, passed the technician test, asked me if I want to take the general
test of that, I passed that one two and then tried out the disabled to see the extra tests
and I did take it and throw all the questions but I didn't do that all and I didn't
care when I got the latest questions out of the 60, right, and half of those were guesses.
So before it was at the Free Mason's College and people were really friendly there and
made it easy to go through all the tests and they were even rooting for me when I was going
to take the third test and I didn't quite make it but it was all together a good experience
a work brand event like using man help the campsitty.org ever recommend you can even
if you're not going to take the test to study up on that website just to see what not kind
of knowledge you can gain and it was a fun experience for me too, but not a technical school
for over 20 years, it's up to 22 years now and then it was really going to get me there
refresher on some things I should have known, not as much as I had but there's some math
involved and I think if I would I don't know if I'll ever take that extra but if I go online
and go through the study course for that I think I could learn a lot from it too.
I think my first project after this have a Raspberry Pi that's both of the windows so I
do a place to put up an antenna I don't know how I'll propagate but I'll set up a software
to find it in radio and access on my laptop so I can set up a third close by and I was studying
and I got to general some of the mathematics for really tiny so I came back in the fire to do
a pop band on them so I could see what the numbers for the bonus were so I could have that
to identify it.
Now I just had a wait for the FCC which is the Federal Communications Commission in the
United States and it all took two days before I got to notice that they had another 10 days
to pay their new fee which started April 19th of 2022 for $35 and within about 24 hours
I got a PDF from my email that had both a principle that I could paper that I could put
on my station or also one for my wallet.
My call sign is kd9vmw as a kilo delta niner Victor Mike whiskey.
That's all I have for now thank you for listening bye you have been listening to
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