BTW: I passed the 2nd Class Phone exam in 1958 with the same knowledge necessary for the General.
Bob Macklin K5MYJ Seattle, Wa. "Real Radios Glow In The Dark!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Macklin" <macklin...@msn.com> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class License >I passed the General exam in 1957 mostly with waht I leaned in USAF Radar > Schaool and some reading in the ARRL handbook. We had to draw schematics > and > work math problems. No multiple guess. We could use a sliderule for thos > problems in those days. > > I took the Extra exam this year after being pushed by friends to do so. I > looked at the question pool twicwe then just took the test with what > knowledge i had. I got 80% correct. I personally think the current Extra > exam is a bunch of BS! Too much computer BS in it. My weak area was the > satalite stuff which I did not want to spend time learning since I will > never use it. > > Bob Macklin > K5MYJ > Seattle, Wa. > "Real Radios Glow In The Dark!" > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bernie Doran" <qedconsulta...@embarqmail.com> > To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" > <amradio@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:10 PM > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class License > > >> Hi Tom: I respectful have to disagree with you. the extra that I passed >> was >> far simpler that the general examination that I took in 1954. for that >> test >> one had to correctly draw circuits, my test required a Hartley oscillator >> and a neutralized push pull triode amplifier and I believe a few others. >> I >> took a first phone the same year and found it to be about the same as the >> extra of those days. I never took the twenty WPM as the best I could copy >> was about 22 and I figuired that was not enough of a buffer, plus the >> bands >> were the same for extra and general at that time. I would like to hear >> comments from others that took the general/extra back in the 50s and see >> what they thought, I guess the best thing would be track down an old >> license >> manual. 73 Bernie >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Thomas F. Giella NZ4O" <n...@tampabay.rr.com> >> To: "AM ra...@qth.net" <amradio@mailman.qth.net> >> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:50 PM >> Subject: [AMRadio] Extra Class License >> >> >>> Bernie Said: >>> .....And yes, I know this has been brought up before, and yes I know >>> there >>> are generals, not >>> an excuse for most, a few hours with the license manual and you are an >>> extra. I talked with a 13 year girl a while back that was an >>> extra!!..... >>> >>> NZ4O Says: >>> It really get's old hearing the Extra Class license denigrated on this >>> email >>> list. I have a BS in Meteorology, an MS in Space Plasma Physics and an >>> above >>> average IQ but could not memorize all of the answers to all of the >>> questions >>> in the current Extra Class license question pool. I had to study and >>> understand the material over a period of a few months to pass the test >>> on >>> the first try. >>> >>> 99.9% of the people that denigrate the current Extra Class question pool >>> as >>> being so easy that the answers to the questions can be memorized in >>> short >>> order, CAN NOT ACCOMPLISH THAT FEAT. Since the Morse code requirement >>> was >>> reduced to 5 wpm and then ultimately to zilch (which I did not agree >>> with) >>> the question pools have been toughened. >>> >>> The average Extra Class ham that passed the written rest 10-20 years ago >>> could not pass the current exam without real study. >>> >>> 73 & GUD DX, >>> Thomas F. 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