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Is there such a thing, some guy in El Gorah, Egypt a Yank no less tried to
sell my friend a copy of this, ok so him and I were a little game, we bought the thing from him, guess its seems to be all the right answers for the Advanced test, Ummm... the correct answers for every question in each of the licensing exam pools are posted on the ARRL web site. For example, see http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/tech2003.txt to view the complete question pool for the Technician exam - you'll find the correct answer for each question listed with the question's number. The actual exams consist of a certain number of questions drawn from each subelement of the question pools. A whole bunch of different exams are prepared in advance. Certainly, the correct numerical answer for each coded exam ought not to be available... the specific set of questions drawn from the pool for each of the exam sheets is supposed to be kept confidential by the VECs. If the "cheat sheet" to which you are referring is simply the list of questions, each question's four choices, and an indication of which choice is correct, then this is (and by current intent is _supposed_ to be) public knowledge. That's how the FCC has set things up for quite a few years. No need to pay anyone for it - it's freely available from the ARRL, from the FCC, and probably from numerous other sites. so my question is now how many of these things are there out there, and how guys are for real, not some two bit cow-boy that knows nothing about nothing. What happens when we need those guys in a emergency and they don't know crap!!. A fair number of people get their Tech license by going to a one-day "cram course", memorizing the answers to all of the questions, and then taking and passing the exam. Those among them who are wise, will realize that they don't really know much if anything more than they did when they started, and will treat this as the _beginning_ of their study and learning experience rather than the end of it. These are among the amateurs who you'll be able to count upon in an emergency. Some of the others may very well be useless under those conditions. However, even those who truly study the material _before_ they take and pass the exam, will almost certainly need (or at least benefit by) additional study and experience if they are to be of real use in a communications emergency. Passing traffic, working effectively in open and directed nets, working with government agencies, etc. are topics which the FCC exams barely touch upon. I've learned a lot more about these things by spending time on my local ARES/RACES nets, and taking the basic ARRL Emergency Communications course, than I ever did in studying for my ticket. Guys if you know of other cheat sheets out there, please send them this way, I will do my level best to get them out. My guess is that you'll have no luck at all attempting this. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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