WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

This thread is for people wishing to discuss upgrading to (or starting out at) the Advanced licence level.

Questions on the exams, course content, or anything else relating to the Advanced level qualification are most welcome.

I'm off to the advanced exam in a couple of hours. I just realised I don't have the passport sized photos

Good luck.
A mate used his home PC and printer for his standard license photos.

Yep that's what I used, digital camera and photo printer... Only issue I had with that was getting a pen that would write up the side of the photo without smudging

Good luck with your advanced exam. Don't forget ... 90mins to do the exam and another 90mins to do all the paperwork afterwards

Zebedee wrote:Yep that's what I used, digital camera and photo printer... Only issue I had with that was getting a pen that would write up the side of the photo without smudging

Good luck with your advanced exam. Don't forget ... 90mins to do the exam and another 90mins to do all the paperwork afterwards

Found a pic from holidays last week that sufficed and some photo paper that had some spare space on it. One of the assessors had a permanent pen. You aren't bloody kidding about the paperwork either. The good news is that it's only once.

robbage wrote:You aren't bloody kidding about the paperwork either. The good news is that it's only once.

Wahey - well done!

awww what now there's not going to be as many cool 'technological' sounding calls out there.

Tyranus wrote:awww what now there's not going to be as many cool 'technological' sounding calls out there.

One of my questions what to identify the electronic symbol. It was an LED

Woo congrats robbage! So what callsign can we expect to hear on air in the nearish future?

Zebedee wrote:Woo congrats robbage! So what callsign can we expect to hear on air in the nearish future?

who says he paid extra to choose his own? </dig at wia>

the wia will give him a dodgy one...

Well done robbage. Welcome to the dark side.

Thanks all. I did use the fantastic WIA callsign recommendation service to choose my own call†. It's only $20. I'll wait until it's on the database though before revealing. My second choice is my initials, VK6RN. NSW people can't pick a 2 letter call but the rest of us can apparently. My hat off to the people at Ham College as well.

† This opinion may change once I get what I want.. heh

4-6 weeks according to Neil. It's nice to know all the changes have streamlined the process for maximum efficiency.

I once convinced ( for about 30 seconds) a fellow advanced candidate that the Melbourne post office had burnt down and our results had been lost.