`73s` getting into amature radio

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`73s` getting into amature radio

Post by CubMG » Wed Sep 23, 2020 2:37 pm

Just to keep me occupied in lockdown -- Mike 7 mike tango november :)
edited to add a title to the header ;)
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Post by CubMG » Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:29 am

Ok 50 views but no radio amatures , if any one is interested the foundation exam is now on line due to social distancing and also training courses with Essex Ham.
sign up for an online course - and spend a few weeks taking it.

https://www.essexham.co.uk/train/foundation-online/

apply to do the online RSGB exam - - it will require you to pay £27 to RSGB

The exam is 19/26 multiple choice question. It's a doddle.

You can even test yourself today - with NO knowledge.. you'll be surprised, at Foundation level, its a lot of common sense

https://radiotutor.uk/l/F/exam

Doing the mock tests, repeatedly is a very good way of getting knowledge onboard quickly . :thumbsu:

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Re: `73s` getting into amature radio

Post by talkingcars » Sun Oct 04, 2020 11:07 pm

50 views in 24 hours is good going, and so is over 140 in 10 days.

Personally the nearest I have ever got to being a radio ham is CB radio in the early '80s when I ran both AM and FM units next to each other in my car.

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Re: `73s` getting into amature radio

Post by CubMG » Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:56 pm

Wit 5000 plus members on here I thought there may be one or two amatures ,I have a Cb in the shed not used for a long time ,I also have ships radio licence not a yachty one :lol: :lol: . Did you try the test James ? if you had a cb you will know some of the stuff already.

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Re: `73s` getting into amature radio

Post by Rob Bell » Mon Oct 05, 2020 3:45 pm

Not something I've been into (other than when watching the Dukes of Hazard and warnings of Boss Hog...) - although I do have a couple of handset walkie-talkies when going on green lane trips in the rescued Freelander!

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Re: `73s` getting into amature radio

Post by talkingcars » Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:17 pm

CubMG wrote:
Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:56 pm
....Did you try the test James ? if you had a cb you will know some of the stuff already.

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Re: `73s` getting into amature radio

Post by CubMG » Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:30 pm

talkingcars wrote:
Mon Oct 05, 2020 6:17 pm
CubMG wrote:
Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:56 pm
....Did you try the test James ? if you had a cb you will know some of the stuff already.

Michael M7MTN
Um, 3/10.
The on line course is free :lol: :thumbsu:
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