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For starters, get a good study guide for your written test. You can get them at Radio Shack or from W5YI. If you go to Radio Shack, be sure to take a look at the date the guide is valid. They are real bad about letting out of date study guides sit on the shelf, knowing most people won't see the *fine print*. When you're ready, find a local club to see when and where you can take your test. Also, if you decide to go for it, the morse code requirements have taken some changes since I got my ticket. Now all you need to be able to pass is a 5 word per minute test. That's the easy one! For radios, I run Yaesu and Icom. Kenwood also makes some very nice radios, but are a bit pricey. You might also drop by ARRL. They have some useful info there as well. Good luck!
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| Posts: 6198 | Location: North Texas | Registered: July 07, 2001 |  |
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Grocery Getter
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Yeah, what he said....  Bullfrog, there are study guides for each of the 3 current ARS (Amateur Radio Service) levels. DM is right -- go to ARRL for an overview and to download as much free material as you've got bandwidth & storage for. The lowest ham license category is incredibly easy to get. It's alot like getting your driver's license: you can get a book that has the entire "pool" of questions along with answers. Read that. Then you take a test that is a very small semi-random sample of the question pool, and you can even miss a few and still pass. See, just like a driver's license, though, what a minute: it's difficult to kill someone by breaking the FCC laws, but if you do it's a felony. It's extremely easy to kill someone by disobeying traffic law, but it's usually a ticket?? What up with that?  Lastly, a great source of info, product reviews and sample tests is www.eham.net. Cheers! (or "73" as we say BlkJk |
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| Posts: 123 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: April 21, 2004 | |
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