Congratulations, Phil ! I also aced the Extra exam today. I've held the Advanced class ever since 'Incentive Licensing' was first imposed on hams many years ago, but never bothered to upgrade. I did it today to avoid the rush after the code requirement gets dropped next week but was surprised at the number of people who showed up to take tests in Cupertino. It was several minutes before a seat at one of the tables opened up. I highly recommend the Gordon West book and also the FREE http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/index.shtml web site for practice exams if anyone else is thinking of upgrading. -- Dave WB4FZU - maybe k6/w6/n6 something some day ----- Original Message ----- From: P. Stewart To: sares-list@INTERNET. sunnyvaleares.org Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: [SARES] I R One I R One- as of today an HF Licensed HAM! After 13 months of trying to stuff Morse Code into my dyslexic brain and with the FCC dropping of code for all license classes looming large (Feb 23rd.), and last week passing the General Class test (again- my third :-), I attended the Cupertino VE test session today- the last code test being given in the Valley. I managed a 40 and multiple over 25 simultaneous characters- PASS. While I was there I decided I would take the Extra Class test to see what it was all about. Fortunately, it was largely technical and the other stuff I was mostly able to narrow down to a couple of choices which upped my guestimate percentage- I handily passed that as well. Now I have a bright shinny slash after my call sign- question is it: a /AG (from last week), a /AE from this week, or am I a GE J. Now I can get on the air and test peoples patience with my snail-code and spastic fist J. Life is Good, Phil K6PHL/AGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SARES members mailing list: <sares-list@INTERNET. sunnyvaleares.org> For help with (un)subscription send e-mail to <majordomo@INTERNET. athm.net>Received on Sat Feb 17 2007 - 23:17:25 GMT
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