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QRP DX!
Hi, I'm your basic appliance
operator. I own an FT817 QRP rig and work the world on 5
watts. I recently moved to a new house where the landlord had the
foresight to install an inverted L raingutter antenna prior to my
moving in. I'm not the fastest on CW, but it doesn't matter that
much during contests when the DX sends his callsign a million
times. :-) The old QTH sported an inverted L up 25 feet
from ground level and was made of .22 gauge wire attached to the
house. Just think of the improved capture area that the rain
gutter at this QTH will have. I've worked as far east as
Michigan and Mississippi in 30 minutes of casual operating. The
world is next.
Licensing
Upgrading got you
down? Here's a tip from the master test taker. The ARRL
study guides tell you not to try to memorize all the test
questions. Its impossible. Well they are right. But
then again, you don't need to memorize every entire question, right
answer and wrong answers, do you? My suggestion is to black out
all the wrong answers on your study guide since they won't help you
pass the test. But even before that, find "correct" answers in
each section that are unique to the entire section. When you find
those, then you can black out those specific questions and just
memorize that unique "correct" answer. Going even further, you
could black out everything in the unique correct answer that doesn't
really need to be memorized, leaving you just a "correct answer phrase"
to memorize.
Other questions that have answers that are duplicated elsewhere in a question pool section will need to be analyzed for a unique phrase that you will need to pair with a unique phrase in the answer and be studied together.
You may be able to use these techniques even with some of the electronic formula questions. Other questions you might just have to memorize the formula.
I used this technique of information elimination to memorize the key elements to pass the Advanced Class test with only 3 missed questions and the Extra Class with 100%. I also aced the General Radiotelephone test this way. When I took these tests, the correct answer JUMPED out at me because I hadn't looked at the wrong answers (which looked like foreign baloney).
Other questions that have answers that are duplicated elsewhere in a question pool section will need to be analyzed for a unique phrase that you will need to pair with a unique phrase in the answer and be studied together.
You may be able to use these techniques even with some of the electronic formula questions. Other questions you might just have to memorize the formula.
I used this technique of information elimination to memorize the key elements to pass the Advanced Class test with only 3 missed questions and the Extra Class with 100%. I also aced the General Radiotelephone test this way. When I took these tests, the correct answer JUMPED out at me because I hadn't looked at the wrong answers (which looked like foreign baloney).
Geocaching!
What is it? It is treasure hunting using a global positioning satellite receiver to find treasure boxes hidden by other people. Latitude and longitude coordinates for these little boxes are posted on a website at www.geocaching.com.
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