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slipknot wrote:well, Missed out on last years, but now The next one is coming up in about 20 or so days. Apparently, Its Incredibly hard to pass.

Starts the last Tuesday in July - see you there!

And it's not hard to pass if you know the material The course is designed to build on what you learned in Standard level. So all the basic stuff about resistors and current and capacitors and stuff like that will be mentioned briefly, so we can focus most of our energies on the stuff that's new.

The oscillators Doug ..... Tell him about the oscillators muhaaaaa

Nah really slipknot if you do home study each week you will pass.

VK6ZMS wrote:The oscillators Doug ..... Tell him about the oscillators muhaaaaa

Nah really slipknot if you do home study each week you will pass.

Yes. Alllllllllll feeeear the evil oscillators!

And they do have questions on valves, that one got me

Radzeck wrote:And they do have questions on valves, that one got me

G'day Derek,

I think that they were still using spark gap transmitters when you started studying for your ticket...!

I also had a question with a valve in the circuit, but you didn't need to know how the valve works to answer it. I think that was just a kipper.

Thanks for the reassurance guys I wasnt including those jokes but. , yer actuly, i just took a stnadard exam trial and only got 68% , forgotten a bit havnt I

slipknot wrote:yer actuly, i just took a stnadard exam trial and only got 68% , forgotten a bit havnt I

Yes. Sorry but we are going to have to revoke your standard licence. Back on F-plates

Congratulations to the people who passed their Advanced exams last night at Ham College. A few licence upgrades on the way!

Any warsug members who want to own up?

I know of one.... well done =D>

VK6ZMS wrote:The oscillators Doug ..... Tell him about the oscillators muhaaaaa

You know what ... those oscillators are nothing compares to the paper works after the exams ... that's when the real exam begin ...

Well done Ron. Good to see such enthusiasm for a "dying hobby" (not my words)
You can still pass the examine without ANY recall for oscillator theory
I wonder if the new callsign will hit the database before new year.
Now you need an APRS tracker

robbage wrote:Well done Ron. Good to see such enthusiasm for a "dying hobby" (not my words)

Dying Hobby ... ? Really ... ?

robbage wrote: You can still pass the examine without ANY recall for oscillator theory

You are right Rob, I didn't get any questions on oscillators ... instead I have got one on flux capacitors hahahaha ... just kidding ... !

robbage wrote:
I wonder if the new callsign will hit the database before new year.

Yes good question ... that depends on whether I passed the paper works or not
When we did the Foundation one of the guys I know got his paper works sent with a callsign but not appeared on the online database ... and he needed to sort it out with ACMA and it took a while for them to do that ...

robbage wrote: Now you need an APRS tracker

Yeah ... I am sort of reluctant to broadcast my where about to people I don't know ... but it's interesting technology though ...

Nosferatu wrote:

robbage wrote: Now you need an APRS tracker

Yeah ... I am sort of reluctant to broadcast my where about to people I don't know ... but it's interesting technology though ...

I know how you feel. I turn mine off when I need to