questions regarding the element 2 pool questions..

[KDUV7462]

OKAY.

I downloaded the TXT version of the first test pool questions. I wrote a visual basic program to ask me all teh questions and keep track of how many i miss. (pretty neat program, lol)

the program even recognizes which questions are labeled "retracted", lol. Sure, i could have edited the TXT file, but...this way when they change it, its no work to throw it in the program in the future.

I knew or could guess most of the stuff, and the electronics is easy (an old hobby, digitalelectronics is, lol)

I have two "problem areas", one of which is easily rectified. I need a series of illustrations that i can feed the program and allow the study user to at least flip thru the pictures, so i can answer the "illustration" questions, they dont SOUND too hard, lol, but i cant *see* them, LMAO

question two... there are like 20 or more questions all about this all important "ITU region 2". Where in the heck IS this place, and what the heck is there its so d@mn special?? LMAO, I figure it must be near a NORAD installation or something.

But...wheres the list for all this ITU 2 region special stuff? I obviously have to memorize 87 different minutiae about this place.

I dont picture any special problems with the schematics and block diagrams. If it wasnt for the ITU 2 stuff and a few of the RF safety limits stuff i was never exposed to before, the test is a snap for the most part. I dont have the ARRL handbook (not a current one anyways, mine is a-n-c-i-e-n-t, lol.

[N0IU]

The United States just happens to be in ITU Region 2.

If you actually studied for your license instead of writing a cool program, you would know this! That's the problem with concentrating on memorizing the questions and answers.  Sure, you get your license but you don't really learn anything about ham radio!

Because you can't be bothered with taking the time to actually look it up, here are the three regions and the areas they cover:

ITU region 1 is Europe, Middle East, Africa, and North Asia.

ITU region 2 is North and South America, Caribbean, Greenland.

ITU region 3 is South Asia, Australia New Zealand, and Oceania.

[KDUV7462]

thanks (I think, lol)

i did a google search and came up with "N.Am. is IT-2" but i appreciate it.

My ARRL red-cover is from like 1961 or something, I dont trust it for other than basic theory, LMAO

I dunno, they provide a question pool, I'll study that. If they yank the question pools from public view, and point at a stack of books, I'll read those instead. Whatever.

I'm at a point where I've resigned myself to whatever else anyone says, I dont care. I just want my ticket, and to be alone with a radio without sweating operating it illegally.

So I'm a retard because i cant locate a radio reference library at 4 in the morning? lol. I can live with that. I guess you'll REALLY hate me when i memorize all the general questions, too. lmao.

Just for you...
My new motto is "10M high power or bust", LMAO


Mostly because I cant be bothered with learning anything, I found the practice tests here in between smacking two rocks together trying to get a fire, LMAO (OOG-UGH, Fi-re, Ugh!) LMAO. Anyhow, how many times would i have to re-take the practice exam to feel comfortable emerging from my cave and taking the real one? 5? 10? 20? SO far i cant manage to fail it (practice test here). It doesnt seem real hard.


Actually, this is kinda cool, the occasional gratuitous insults, hee hee. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy all over like my days in the lab with the guys at university, we always hazed each other real good.

Isn't anyone REALLY good at insults though? this is all you got? LMAO Come on, give me both barrels, lets see what you've got. (BTW, just in case you dont know the rules of engagement, if you cant make me start hopping around sputering mad, pounding the keyboard in frustration, you dont "win", hee hee.)

73, hugs and kisses.

[N0IU]

Whew, am I glad you have a sense of humor! You are obviously new here because most people on eHam think I am totally devoid of any sense of jocularity!

As far as your studying goes, don't wait too long. The current Technician Pool is valid until June 30, 2006 and then another one comes out and you will have to memorize all new questions and answers!

Actually, we are probably more alike than I would care to admit. I used to belong to a club many years ago. Heck, I was even president of the darn thing in 1993 and 1994. I quit a few years ago because all they want to do is sink money into some decrepit old repeaters and provide communications for walk-a-thons and road rallies. Like you, all I want to do is sit in front of the radio, spin the big knob and talk to someone (using CW of course!)

The only reason I could find the information at that hour of the night is because I work the graveyard shift from 10:30PM to 7:00AM the next day. I have to do something to look busy in the middle of the night!

As far as the occasional gratuitous insults, like they say in Hollywood, there is no such thing as bad publicity! Hey, at least someone is paying attention to you!

Happy Arbor Day!

Scott N0IU

[KDUV7462]

Yeah, but with the current trends the last few years, the pool will either get smaller (easier), or change to be even easier yet, right? LMAO

Ok, I can dig it... you guys arent trying to weed out the new hams, like some here, just trying to sort thru the clingy, needy, sensitive people, LMAO.

Yeah, get rid of the sensitive ones, hee hee.

Man, around my group of buddies, if it isn't *brutally* sarcastic, you aint a menber of the group, heh heh

so you took classes and learned stuff to provide communications for organizations and events, and set up temp commands and stuff? Figuring you would be directlng relief supplies for the red cross on TV, and instead all you guys did was park cars at charity events? lol. I hear you.

so since i'm curious, i *think* i could just run out and get a no code tech, thres been a kinda explosion of a bunch of "sub meter" bands the last decade or two, I see. Any of these modes/HT's/Rigs any fun for what i seem to describe? Somehow I am picturing a bunch of baby boomers gabbing town to town thru the hills around here on 2M ht repeaters inbetwen shopping sprees, lmao.

so whats the cool "gotta have" band and rig for nocoders?

please dont say CW, (shudder) yet... somehow, maybe with a software driven keyer, typing on a keyboard, feeding it typed "strings", lmao... if it would "decode" the darn stuff in reverse, lmao, the lower power DX'ing possibilities and the cheap wire dipoles MIGHT be something i could stomach somehow, if i could automate the process.

[WA9SVD]

Hmmm.  You've "LMAO'd" so much, it's a wonder you have one left.

    No offense meant, but why not just get a copy of the Handbook and actually learn some of the material.  You won't regret it.  And it will be useful in the future.

Good luck, whatever happens.  

[N8UZE]

To the KDU...

There is software to both encode and decode CW.  So long as you have a strong signal, no distortion, and someone who is sending as consistantly as a computer, they copy just fine.  However if the signal is weak, or there is distortion, or the sender is sloppy, only the human brain is good enough to copy it.  However, that's better than the options with PSK or RTTY when the signals get bad.  For these modes, the only choice is to turn off the radio.

[KE5GPR]

My question is: Lol and LMAO? Are you REALLY? Lighten up.