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Airplane1
Intermediate Member
Username: Airplane1
Post Number: 435
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 4:33 pm: | 
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Can someone give me info on how to get 6 meter licence?
AP |
Af579
Junior Member
Username: Af579
Post Number: 36
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 5:15 pm: |
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try radio shack and pick up the Technician class study guid... Also you can study online at eham.net. when you are ready look on www.arrl.org and find the closest test. It really is not hard. Tech is mostly rules and regulations. Hope this helps |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2740
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 5:52 pm: |
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yep use they have on the web tests also http://www.arrl.org sells books on the test.
http://www.qez.com/wa4gch will show my old station |
Allagator
Advanced Member
Username: Allagator
Post Number: 613
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:39 pm: |
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Bruce that link didnt work for me ~~~~~
but you said old shack rite !!!! ( HE HE HE )
guess your still on the back porch !!! LOL |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 5889
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 6:46 pm: |
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Airplane1,
Sorry but no such thing as a 6 meter License.
You will need to at least get a Techincian Class License issued by the FCC and then you will be able to use 6 meters.
CLICK on the Link below:
QRZ's Practice Amateur Radio Exams
Then start taking the Practice Test's for Technician Class
When you are passing the Pratice Tests with at least 70% on every test you will be ready to take the Written test for your Ham License.
Hope this helps,
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN
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Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 840
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 11:47 pm: |
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i would like to think airplane's interested in getting on 6 because of my plastering it all over the place...even if it's not the reason, STILL GREAT!! more cbers & copper members on 6 is GOOD!
QRZ's Practice Amateur Radio Exams
as well as www.aa9pw.com which i feel has the better mix are the best places for practice questions. airplane, i didn't study for the test. figuring i knew it all, i checked those 2 sites the nite before i took the test, figured i could pass based on what i knew & proceeded to get 31 out of 35 correct. had i studied/read a licensing manual for a few weeks before, i probably could have gotten 3 or 4 more correct.
read 'six meters, a guide to the magic band' by ken neubeck, wb2amu (a local here)-as a newcomer to amateur radio, that book helped me to decide to get into 6 meters. fairly close to cb type skip, though not relying on sunspots as much, it has yearly seasons, & 1 is currently running now. i love to dx on 11m, but when 6 is rolling-it is FUN!!! |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2752
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 12:30 pm: |
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WELL 6 was open again today I worked the TURKS/CAICOS ISLANDS and cuba!
Station from the 60's
http://www.qrz.com/wa4gch |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2753
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 1:11 pm: |
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Just worked a salor in guamtamno bay cuba .... |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2756
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 3:18 pm: |
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worked Bleese (Central America), miss, La and tenn now if i just had a amp! |
Skilletlicker
Intermediate Member
Username: Skilletlicker
Post Number: 215
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 3:48 pm: |
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he qrz practice test has been a great help to me
went from a low no passing grade to an average in the low 90,s,also been studying the techician class study book by gordon west ,kind of lets me
know the why and wherefores of the questions ,hope i will be able to take the test in the near future
the skilletlicker |
Airplane1
Intermediate Member
Username: Airplane1
Post Number: 436
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 7:20 pm: |
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thanks for all the help, I am useing the web sites you all gave me.
AP |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 849
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 8:38 pm: |
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that's right bruce, rub it in!!! while i'm sweaty & dirt covered out in the yard, you're DXing. what a life! didn't check radios til 7:30 PM, 11m & 6m-all quiet. oh well. where's the rain when i need it??? |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 850
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 8:47 pm: |
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been unable to contact less then 10 stations i've called, out of??? rci5054dx100 & 80 measly watts pep on a borrowed diamond sx100 meter. THE
AMAZING THING IS HOW AN ANTENNA 30" SQUARE GETS RIGHT IN THERE WITH BEAMS & SEVERAL HUNDRED WATTS! of course a local, with a LARGE beam & at the very least the full legal max just toys with me-but that's all in fun, he lets me get my contacts! |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2761
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 9:22 pm: |
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it went nuts here and i was working them from before 9 am untill 9 pm again today .... |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2792
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 7:47 pm: |
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I was looking through a box of old papers and found this card. This man is well know as a leader in early 2 meter weak signal work ( The W2AZL 417b tube low noise converter is classic ) I had the pleasure of having lunch with him in July 1970 not long before he died. In old VHF books he was like ed tilton was to early 2 meter antennas the one you followed when builting low noise receiver RF stages. A GREAT GUY who would sit down with a young ham and show him how to make his station just a bit better !
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Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 869
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 2:43 pm: |
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got my 1st 6 meter qsl in todays mail...brought a tear to my eye. if only because a postcard stamp has doubled since first started qsling dx stations on cb in the '70's!
STILL A THRILL!!! LET'S GO Es!! LET'S GO Es!! |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2799
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 9:14 pm: |
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it's a great feeling now 1,999,999 grid squares to go! |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 874
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 11:42 pm: |
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thanks a lot bruce! sure know how to bring me back to reality!
BUT, 6 meters being dead all day, checked 11-HA! just shy of 100 contacts in 2 and 1/2 hours tonite
including tech 808/cef 808 & corncob/cef 166. got my DX fix & now i can sleep peacefully! |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2801
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 10:35 am: |
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Another early one ....
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Yankee
Advanced Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 640
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 10:47 am: |
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Hey Bruce, Did you ever think of getting your old call back as a vanity? It hasn't been asked for. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2802
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 11:09 am: |
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no i like the 33 year old one i have
G ( good ) c ( clean ) h ( ham ) |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 883
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 10:25 pm: |
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6 is getting like 11-am talking to the same DX stations day after day!
when QSLing came up on the forum a while back, my mom had recently given me a box of cb qsl's from 70's skip contacts-checking 'em out i noticed many of the south america & european cards had ham calls...
spoke to KE4Kissing Vanna White today...interesting thought & he was wondering why he was causing a pileup. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2807
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 11:10 pm: |
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Worked another 30 today 25 are new contacts who ill QSL ! I heard cuba again but he had 100 stations calling him. now the next 3 weekends are contest weekends too .... LET THE SKIP GOD KEEP SMILEING! |
Moderator136
Moderator
Username: Moderator136
Post Number: 33
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 11:30 pm: |
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Good job
Bruce keep the good work up , QSL all the way my freind.
73 to you |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 889
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 12:19 am: |
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been warming up for next weekend, but at least 2 little league games, regular lacrosse game & 3 game lacrosse tournement...did i ever say springtime & radio don't mix???
PRAY FOR RAIN!!!at least little league would be cancelled! |
