Posted: 2/18/2010 5:43:32 AM EDT
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http://w4cue.com/fest.html
march 6th and 7th at the zamora shrine temple. if you have been thinking about the ham radio plunge... the time is here! |
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hey think there is enough time for me to cram and take the test then? A few years ago I passed all three tests in the same weekend - Technician (Sat. morning), General (Sat. afternoon), Extra (Sunday morning). I started studying on Wed. or Thursday for Tech and General, Sat. evening for Extra. I printed out the question pools and highlighted the correct answer for each question. I then read the question and the correct highlighted answer. I did not read the wrong answers, just the correct one for each question (an even better approach would probably be to white out all the incorrect answers). I did this repeatedly before the tests, and managed to pass each one first try by reading the question and going with my first impression for the correct answer. I treated it as an exercise in taking multiple choice tests, not in learning HAM knowledge. Of course getting a license and being a real HAM are two different things, but if I have an interest in getting into it in the future I won't have to worry about the bureaucracy. |
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Saturday, March 6th:
9:00 AM Room 1: Testing Room 2: ALERT/Skywarn 10:00 AM Room 1: (Testing continues) Room 2: Bell Ringers Meeting 11:00 AM Room 1: (Testing continues) Room 2: Alabama Repeater Council 12:00 PM Room 1: Alabama Contest Group Room 2: D-STAR Administrators Meeting 1:00 PM Room 1: ARRL / AREC Room 2: Youth Forum 2:00 PM Room 1: MARS Sunday, March 7th: 9:00 AM Room 1: Testing (through noon) |
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not yet. give me a few weeks. gonna pool my money so i can buy as much radio as i can to begin with so i don't have to buy again to soon down the road. i have another kid on the way so i need to buy as much as i can before it gets here. TBS showed me some of his gear today and i got a few ideas. gonna play around on echolink for a bit until i get something. |
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congrats on the upcoming baby. Let us know when you get your callsign 
eta: TBS.... did you get one of those radios we were looking at Sat? no, i just couldn't drop the cash on it. doing some research i am kinda glad i didn't buy that ft100 rig. looks like it had a ton of issues reading the reviews. I am still torn on getting the ft817. i really like that rig but i am afraid it's going to force me to learn code to actually use it |
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finally got my call sign today. just need a radio now. in a few weeks KJ4TAQ will be broadcasting. damn that was quick!!!! to me 3-4 weeks. if you will be at lodge tonight i will bring you a radio to use. cool deal! Mine didn't take very long either. |
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finally got my call sign today. just need a radio now. in a few weeks KJ4TAQ will be broadcasting. damn that was quick!!!! to me 3-4 weeks. if you will be at lodge tonight i will bring you a radio to use. cool deal! Mine didn't take very long either. it really did, it just felt short becuase you wernt sober for most of the wait 
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finally got my call sign today. just need a radio now. in a few weeks KJ4TAQ will be broadcasting. damn that was quick!!!! to me 3-4 weeks. if you will be at lodge tonight i will bring you a radio to use. cool deal! Mine didn't take very long either. it really did, it just felt short becuase you wernt sober for most of the wait don't hate because I have great taste in alcohol and I got my call sign faster than you 
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it has become my new nightly bedtime thing. i listen to the barc repeater around 10 until i fall asleep. has been some pretty good conversation to listen to on there. in the mornings its is like fact of the day or something. this morning listening to it, i learned why cafe bikes are called cafe bikes. also learned that if you do enough of them you can change out a forklift clutch in 45 minutes. pretty neat stuff. think i will join the barc just so i can contribute to the upkeep of the repeater. i am using one of tbs's small backup radios and i can hit it all the way from centerpoint. |
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i listen a good bit but seldom talk. be nice to have some folks i know on the air.  lol more than just YOU I wasn't meaning just me you dork... the smrf man is on there now too. You could always get on there when the main group is on, get them fired up about obama and let them go to town on Clyde or whatever his name is. |
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i listen a good bit but seldom talk. be nice to have some folks i know on the air. lol more than just YOU I wasn't meaning just me you dork... the smrf man is on there now too. You could always get on there when the main group is on, get them fired up about obama and let them go to town on Clyde or whatever his name is. lol..... those are hysterical. that poor guy gets a new ass ripped daily. |
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i listen a good bit but seldom talk. be nice to have some folks i know on the air. lol more than just YOU I wasn't meaning just me you dork... the smrf man is on there now too. You could always get on there when the main group is on, get them fired up about obama and let them go to town on Clyde or whatever his name is. lol..... those are hysterical. that poor guy gets a new ass ripped daily. he brings it on himself. They were talking about pelosi one day and he's defending her to no end... even commented on how he saw her in person and she's got all the right curves in all the right places. I thought I was going to have to pull over to throw up! Dewayne (sp?) cracks me up... he gets on Clyde all the time lol. |
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Quoted: it has become my new nightly bedtime thing. i listen to the barc repeater around 10 until i fall asleep. has been some pretty good conversation to listen to on there. in the mornings its is like fact of the day or something. this morning listening to it, i learned why cafe bikes are called cafe bikes. also learned that if you do enough of them you can change out a forklift clutch in 45 minutes. pretty neat stuff. think i will join the barc just so i can contribute to the upkeep of the repeater. i am using one of tbs's small backup radios and i can hit it all the way from centerpoint. I was thinking more in the 7 to 8 range. No more 10 o'clock nights for this old man. I'm not 18 years old any more like I was 9 years ago. |
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i listen a good bit but seldom talk. be nice to have some folks i know on the air. lol more than just YOU I wasn't meaning just me you dork... the smrf man is on there now too. You could always get on there when the main group is on, get them fired up about obama and let them go to town on Clyde or whatever his name is. lol..... those are hysterical. that poor guy gets a new ass ripped daily. he brings it on himself. They were talking about pelosi one day and he's defending her to no end... even commented on how he saw her in person and she's got all the right curves in all the right places. I thought I was going to have to pull over to throw up! Dewayne (sp?) cracks me up... he gets on Clyde all the time lol. Clyde's a liberal? I used to like him. He used to seem so smart. I'm pretty sure it's him. |
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Anyone think it's a bad idea to post my call? I don't care if other hams know it, I just don't really want the layperson to get a hold of it and use it for evil rather than good. Bad Idea. There are a lot of Liberals and others that read this board and they would do harm to people on this board if they knew how to find them. 
Impeach Obama because he is violating the Constitution and the Will of the People. 
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