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Old January 21st 07, 02:58 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy
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Mike Coslo wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote in news:qoush.50660$wc5.9835
@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net:


There are so many more possibilities in Amateur radio these days.
Lots of possibilities for test questions. RF safety, spaec station
operations. More bands to have those stupid band questions. Seems like a
good thing to me.

We often hear (and I believe) that the test is a starting point, not an
end. Exposure to the many facets of Amateur radio can only be better
than lots of questions about just a few subjects.


we do need (and we hams have in theory) good questions which ARE hard
to write and some the questions we have are well stinkers but each pool
I have read sems to be better than the one it replaced

so i suspect our current system is the worst of all worlds for testing
except of course for all the others that have been tried (seem to
recall that as a quote of someone

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -