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So you may (or may not) be wondering why I've been neglecting my blogging duties lately. Reason is because I've been studying over the past 3 weeks. I've been preparing to take the Amateur Extra Class radio operator's license.
And, I took the exam (50 questions, multiple choice) this morning in Oakland.
AND PASSED!
So? So big deal?
Well, you have to realize that back when I was in high school I got my first ham radio license, then called the Novice Class. But unfortunately I could never convince my Dad to help me buy any equipment... and setting up an antenna was problematic. So even tho I had the license in 1955, I never used it (but I still remember the call sign: WA2INV .. and it's now owned by someone else.) I was pretty proud to have that license. And I dreamed of one day getting the top grade license, the EXTRA class, which, at that time, seemed to me beyond even a Ph. D.!
So, some fifty years later, guess what? I'm now an Extra Class operator!
That and fifty cents won't get me on BART, but still I've earned some bragging rights.
And it was the first of two goals I set for myself this year. The other, which I've blogged about earlier, is to bring my Morse code abilities up to speed (literally) and get comfortable with some Morse contacts.
We'll start work on that one next week.
73 de KG6EMF/AE
